🚀 go-pugleaf

I was wondering if any state PUC's required the LOC's to provide
a service which required a "1" before dialing a call which the caller
would be charged for.  (For example, requiring 1-976-nnnn for those
'dial-a-horoscope' calls).  Bell of PA does not even provide this
crude form of 'notification' to calls outside the Metropolitan area,
which is not what I have experienced in Cincinnati or Boston.

I have 'unlimited' local service, but I am charged for calls that
are within the Metropolitan area but outside of the subset of 'local'
exchanges in the Metropolitan area.  Unfortunately, I am not required
to dial a 1 before making calls outside of this limited list of exchanges.
I usually find out that I've made some of these type of calls when I
get my bill.  I call the LOC, and they tell me that what I 'really'
want is 'Unlimited Metropolitan Area Service', which is ~$44/month,
compared with ~13/month for 'Unlimited local service', and ~4/month
for straight measured rate service.

The really maddening thing is that even if I pay $44/month, there
are still a good percentage (say 10%) of toll calls which I can make
which don't require a '1' before dialing.

(setq flame-mode 1)
It looks like I'm going to have to use a computer to keep track of
all of toll exchanges - this is unreasonable.  The phone company
has a computer, why don't they use it!
(setq flame-mode 0)

					- Ralph
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