covert%covert.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (John R. Covert) (07/18/88)
In V8#112 I wrote that I had discovered, with some pleasure, that calls from Concord to Lexington were set up to not permit 1-617-861-xxxx, but rather 617-861-xxxx. Continuing to poke around, I found that in Billerica, local calls to Burlington would work with either 617 or 1-617, whereas long-distance 617 calls required the 1. I thought this was even better. So I called the N.E.T. contact for the split to ask him which way was correct. Neither are. 1 is to be absolutely required for cross area calls, even if local. He will have things in Concord and Billerica and elsewhere changed. Sometime between 1992 and 1995, after all SxS offices in Massachusetts are removed, 1 will be removed for within-area calls, even if toll. /john