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Re: Party Line Dialing, was Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes

T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net)
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:19:52 -0500

In article <telecom26.56.7@telecom-digest.org>,
nospam4me@mytrashmail.com says:

> T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net> wrote:

>> Bell made very good money on defense contracts.

> And I'm sure the Long Lines crews were quite busy in the postwar era
> building out the coax and microwave facilities needed to serve the
> needs of network TV, which I am sure was also "very good money" for Ma
> Bell!

> Hence expanding the local facilities took a back seat until I think
> the late 1960s. After all Bell wasn't making much money on local
> phone service.

And that strictly depends on where you happen to live. New England
Telephone in Rhode Island was always profitable and because of that it
was one of Ma Bell's darlings.

We got ESS before Boston did. But we still had some assinine toll
boundaries in the state. Those have pretty much been demolished but
there are still some artifacts left.

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