Initially, a free port was at the center of a regional trade system because transportation was only allowing trade over short distances, while long distance trade was marginal at best.
After AT&T spun off the original seven Baby Bells in 1984, the Bells and other locals were tasked with handling local listings via 411, while long distance firms handled out-of-region numbers via 555-1212.
RBOCs, I think are nothing but bond proxies, while long distance carriers will continue to be under competitive pressure, with the exception of WorldCom which I actually like (See sidebar).
Over the same period, local communications prices are up 70.2percentt while long-distance prices are down almost 34percentt...
While long-distance surgery by robots is now feasible, most medical specialties are still delivered close to home.
While long-distance carriers now have the right to sell local service, they must lease the lines from local carriers, creating abundant opportunity for trouble.
The slow pace of competition for consumers may be one reason local phone rates have continued to keep pace with inflation since 1996 while long-distance rates have tumbled sharply.
While long-distance running, for instance, doesn't seem to directly cause arthritis in most people's knees, it may speed the condition once it starts, Dr. Parks says.
While long-distance trade of locally produced foods occurs from many rural assembly markets of central and southern Benin towards the international market of Dantokpa in Cotonou (Lutz 1994, Fanou et al. 1991), it is increasingly observed that substantial trade flows also go to the regional market of Bohicon.
Short-distance gas emissions mainly come from unexploited parts of first-mined seam, residual coal from the gob, coal seams in the caving zone, the heaving deformation zone in the bottom seam, and part of the fault zone; medium-distance gas emissions predominantly originate from the fault zone and part of the bending zone; while long-distance gas emissions come mainly from the bending zone.
