Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ll billing of indi-vidual calls within the area withmessage-unit billing in bulk. 5. Extending the scope of themonthly message-unit allowance toapply on calls throughout the 46suburban exchanges as well as onNew York City calls. The establishment of extended-area service in 1936 had indicatedthat telephone thinking was headedtowards a metropolitan plan, yetthe foundation for the plan was laidas far back as 1930. In that yearall of New York City became a sin-gle telephone exchange of 15 ratezones, and toll charges within thecity were replaced by message-unitcharges up to three units for inter-zone calls. i95i Metropolitan Service for Suburbanites 43 The zoning system carried within disrupting the rate pattern of the it the origins of the metropolitan city. In other words, why not di- plan because it contained the possi- vide the suburbs into zones and add bility of extending the same system them to the citys zones?to the adjacent communities without As traffic studies through the years
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Metropolitan Exchange boundariesNew York City zone boundaries The ij rate zones of New York Citv which form the basis of the Metropolitan Planare shown within the broken li?ies at the lower left in this illustration—except for zones14 and /j, representing Staten Island, out of location in the upper right corner. TheWestchester and Nassau zones, preceded by the initials IV and N respectively, extendto the heavy lines marking the present boundaries of the Metropolitan Plan 44 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING showed a large increase in toll calls July, I947> and February, 1949. between suburban communities and Never in the history of the Com- between city and suburbs, the com- pany had so many designations been pany in 1943 began active planning changed in so short a period, yet for the setting up of a metropolitan serious complaints were practically exchange. Committees were formed,analyses were made, and after threeyears a master plan was approved. Nine Suburban Rate Zones Fundament

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