newton@csvax.caltech.edu (Mike Newton) (04/11/89)
In V9#115, Wayne Folta asks about large calling areas. Well we have
a rather large/unique calling area (someone else mentioned it, but
had slightly wrong figures):
[] Large local calling area: 4038 sq miles as of 1980.
[] Growing calling area: the volcano adds more area each day.
[] One of the widest (?) variations in altitude: 0 to 13800 feet
(there are many phones at the observatories "up top").
of course, there are some disadvantages:
[] Every non-local call is "overseas", and of poor quality.
[] Its cheaper for me to call the mainland (ROM) than
Oahu (another island), yet every mainland call goes
through Oahu!
[] it reaches very few people (125,000) (roughly 10 exchanges)
I strongly suspect areas in Alaska, Montana, Nevada,... have larger
'local' areas.
- mike
>From the bit bucket in the middle of the Pacific...
Mike Newton newton@csvax.caltech.edu
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