Maybe in your very local calling area--not actually sure what local phone bills were like--but long distance, even to a few towns away in the same state were very expensive. Today, I could probably call London from the US (just using my regular domestic plan) for less than I could have called Boston 40 miles to the east in inflation-adjusted dollars in 1970.
Maybe in your very local calling area--not actually sure what local phone bills were like--but long distance, even to a few towns away in the same state were very expensive. Today, I could probably call London from the US (just using my regular domestic plan) for less than I could have called Boston 40 miles to the east in inflation-adjusted dollars in 1970.