Martin Underwood wrote:
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At least in the UK we got rid of local codes for neighbouring
exchanges: these varied from one place to another - so you might
precede a person's number with a 9 from exchange A to B but precede
it with 61 from exchange C to B. I worked out fairly early on that it
was possible to dial the STD code from *any* exchange, even when a
local code existed. I've heard it said that before local codes were
abolished it was possible to go from one end of the country to the
other in hops by dialling each local code in turn - and that the
resulting trunk call was then charged at the local rate ;-)

That was possible, but as you used local links all the way many repeaters
(amplifiers) were bypassed which resulted in a very quiet call with lots of
background noise.


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Cheers for now,

John from Harrow, Middx

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