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From: jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Bell PA as L.D. Carrier
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Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 04:01:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 11 04:01:45 1987
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A May 1987 bill insert from Bell of Pennsylvania suggests that customers
use the PIC code of 1-0-B-P-A when calling to South Jersey in order to
"automatically save 10% off AT&T's regular long-distance rates for these
calls..."  

I remember hearing that there is some deal that lets Bell of PA (and, I think,
New York Tel.) handle inter-LATA traffic into parts of New Jersey.  That's
OK.  What puzzled me was the following sentence: "If you've already chosen
Bell of Pennsylvania as your long-distance company, there's no need to dial
'1-0-B-P-A.'"

Now, I do sleep eight hours a night so I may have missed something, but
I do know that BOCs can not be long-distance carriers.  How could some-
one have Bell of PA as their primary carrier?

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