For the benefit of our foreign readers, most Americans thought our addressing scheme was coincident with our billing scheme, but it definitely was not. We addr

For the benefit of our foreign readers, most Americans thought our addressing scheme was coincident with our billing scheme, but it definitely was not. We addressed phones and routed calls via area codes, but billed based on LATA. In practice if most of your calls were either across the country or across the neighborhood it didn't matter, but in the last days of BBSes being popular due to massive weirdness in the billing models it was often cheaper to call a BBS across the country than to call a BBS in your LATA but outside the local area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_access_and_transport_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_access_and_transport_are... It had its strange charm as sort of a logic puzzle.