Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!apple!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Non-dialable Points Message-ID:Date: 8 Aug 89 18:17:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom Services - Public Access Unix System (408) 997-9175 guest Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 282, message 4 of 9 >toll-stations are NOT the same as manual exchanges in any event. PT] Could you explain a bit about what a toll station IS? Thanks, Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg [Moderator's Note: In this issue of the Digest, Ed and others, I hope the type of service known as Toll Stations and other types of non-dialable points has become clear to all. As for *actual manual exchanges* -- that is, cord board service to a community of more than one or two people in the wilderness somewhere -- I do believe Bryant Pond, ME was the last one. Mr. Covert seems to think there might be a few more. Can anyone name names at this point? An interesting angle is the way calls to these places show up on your phone bill. The billing will show the area code and the 'mark', meaning the three digit code -- not necessarily the prefix of the number -- used for billing purposes, and the final four digits, filled with leading zeros as required. PT]