[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[Jim Haynes]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:

> We could only call the adjoining town without a toll.  To call the town on the other side of the MAIN town (4 miles away) was a toll call.  BOO HISS!
>
The way it still is, in Chicago suburbs, is that there is a small fixed
charge to call a phone in a different prefix from the one you are in.
So if you are in a motel that allows free local calls you often can't
call even across the street if you happen to be near an exchange prefix
boundary.

This might have made sense when different prefixes went to different
offices; but I would bet that today many of these different prefixes are
actually served out of the same C.O. building.