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Heck many of my school friends were long distance because we lived on county line — I never called anybody except for very brief logistics.
by nytesky 3y ago
Heck many of my school friends were long distance because we lived on county line — I never called anybody except for very brief logistics.
- euroderf 3y agoYou mean a "party line" ? Been there done that too.
- ghaff 3y agoProbably not. Just intrastate long distance within the same area code could cost as much as an (expensive) cross-country call. Phone rates were oriented towards rarely calling outside of your immediate town and its neighbors. To some of the other comments about email, I was the chair of a non-profit board for many years. And while, everyone eventually on the board got on email, it probably took at least a decade and I recall at one point, I used an MCI service that would print out and snail mail an email to the laggards.
- soneil 3y agoSounds like almost the opposite - it sounds like they lived on the border of what would be considered a local call, so people could be geographically local but telegraphically expensive.
- bombcar 3y agoYep. Pizza places would have five or six phone numbers so that everyone in their delivery area could call them on a local line and avoid toll charges.