dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) (07/02/89)
It used to be that you could determine the cost of an intra-lata
call if you knew the CO prefix of the called number. A recent
ruling by the NJ Board of Public Utilities changes that. The ruling
makes all calls within a municipality local calls.
Many NJ municipalities are smaller than a CO serving area. Others
are split between two or more CO serving areas. The effect of this
ruling is that calls to different numbers with the same CO prefix
are billed differently. The determination is made based upon the
customer's post office address.
For example, a customer calling from a 647+ number in Harding
Township who calls a 267+ number in Harding Township is making a
local call. But the same customer who calls a 267+ number in Morris
Township is making a toll call.
This probably plays havoc with a number of ARS algorithms, and once
again makes it impossible to know, when you make a call, whether or
not it is local.
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