pf@ti-csl.csc.ti.COM (Paul Fuqua) (05/17/88)
Date: Monday, May 16, 1988 1:03pm (CDT)
From: cck%COMPUTING-MATHS.CARDIFF.AC.UK at MITVMA.MIT.EDU (C Carmock)
Subject: TOLLS/LOCAL CALLS [TELECOM Digest V8 #79]
I think Chicago is the only area which has mandatory
measured service, but it is fairly reasonable. --jsol]
"Reasonable" is of course a relative term. My girlfriend lives in
Willowbrook (312-986, right in the middle of the disaster area), and
pays $21.95 flat-rate for a quite small local calling area (Westmont,
Hinsdale, Darien), and message units for anything beyond that.
In Dallas (214-340), I pay $14.95 flat-rate to talk to the entire city
and most close suburbs, and there are no local message-unit calls. The
closest equivalent is "Economy Service," which is a smaller monthly rate
and a charge per call after the 25th local call.
On a different note, my new phone books arrived, and on each page is a
large notice that about two dozen prefixes will require the 817 area
code after sometime in August, but will still be LOCAL calls.
I recognise a couple of the exchanges (263, 265) as metro exchanges, but
my sister in Grapevine has metro service (817-481), and her exchange
isn't listed. I haven't checked, but since she has GTE service, the
817-local-call arrangement may be Bell-only.
pf
Paul Fuqua
Texas Instruments Computer Science Center, Dallas, Texas
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