[BC] putting phone calls on the air

[Kevin Tekel]

Tom Osenkowsky wrote:
> Here in Brookfield, CT there was only one exchange, 775,
> in 1969 when I moved here. You could just dial 5 plus the
> last 4 digits. When I lived in Brooklyn, we changed our phone
> number. We were give STagg2-1023. In another part of
> Brooklyn another person had STerling2-1023. Crossed lines!

When I was at Rutgers University in 1998-2001 they had 5-digit
dialing for all on-campus numbers in the same manner as you describe,
even though the campuses (campi?) stretched across multiple cities.
Also, pulse dialing would work for on-campus calls using the 5-digit
abbreviated number, but calls to off-campus numbers had to be made
using a Touch-Tone phone.


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