Forgotten but not gone

Editors try to stay on top of things, but there is one good source of news they tend to overlook: the legal ads. Usually the things are dry, but sometimes there are nuggets in them.

Like this: In today's paper, there is a large legal ad for Telecom*USA* notifying its West Virginia customers that it plans to increase rates on its 10-10-987 calls from 4 cents a minute to 6 cents.

I read that and I thought, 10-10 numbers are still around? I had totally forgotten about them. I succumbed to progress and got my first cell phone about seven years ago. Because it had local and long distance wrapped up in one plan, I have pretty much forgotten about long distance calls on land lines, and I had certainly forgotten about all those 10-10 numbers until I saw this ad.

But they must still be in business in West Virginia. I wonder who uses them.