From: pschleif@speakeasy.org   
      
   On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:13:54 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >mroberds@att.net wrote:   
      
   >>Perhaps NJT thinks it is economical to have a toll-free number that only   
   >>works from within New Jersey (if such a thing still exists), and your   
   >>phone happened to be "out of state" for them.   
   >   
   >Given that companies pay fractions of a cent per minute on long distance,   
   >and these days pay the same for both inward and outward, I'm sure that   
   >they haven't.   
   >   
   >That's something you would never want to do anyway if you're expecting   
   >most of your calls to come from cell phones. After all, a cell phone   
   >may be rated anywhere at all, and receiving a call from a cell phone is   
   >one of the few instances in which a cell phone's rating point could be   
   >used for rating a call.   
      
   Until a few years ago NJ Transit had an 800 number for information   
   that worked only in NJ.  They dropped it altogether and just have a   
   regular 973 number now.   
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