[Boatanchors] WAS Goodies NOW Bell

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

For some odd (HAH!) reason, for that to be the case in Chicago is no big surprise! 
 
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> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:57:24 -0500
> From: jhhaynes at earthlink.net
> To: k2gkk at hotmail.com
> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] WAS  Goodies  NOW Bell
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> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
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> > 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.
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