32-775-5555 A Local Asbury Park, New Jersey Number Caller in Asbury Park Dials a Local Number New York City Call to Asbury Park, NJ Local Telephone Co. Telephone Number Rings on Telephone in Central Office New York in Asbury Park, NJ OUTSIDE LINES Foreign exchange lines are used for two different purposes. If a company has a heavy concentration of telephone calls to a particular city, it may cost less to install one or more foreign exchange lines from that city into their PBX. When someone calls that city, the PBX selects the foreign exchange line and the call is billed as a local call since the telephone line actually comes from the central office in the called city. Companies in some cit- ies, such as Los Angeles, with many different area codes within a small geographic area, may particularly benefit from the use of foreign exchange lines. As the cost per minute for making long distance calls has been reduced, SO has the need for using foreign exchange lines to reduce expenses. The more common use of a foreign exchange line is to give a company a local presence in another city. For example, a com- pany is listed in the Chicago telephone directory and Chicagoans place a local call to reach it. The callers are not aware that the calls are being answered by a PBX located in Milwaukee through a group of foreign exchange lines. This practice is diminishing as the use of 800 numbers increases. As more business is conducted on the telephone, location ceases to be as important. As multiple exchanges and even multiple area codes expand within each city, the association of a particular exchange and area code with a geo- graphic location is diminishing. There are too many new ones, SO callers do not recognize them as easily as in the past. A foreign exchange line is a switched circuit. T-1 Circuit (Can Be Used to Deliver All of the Above Circuits) All of the circuits described above can be delivered to your premises separately with each trunk brought in on a single pair of wires. Any of these may also be delivered on what