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Show oo TALKS 5 MINUTES. Telephone Company Lengthens Tjme Social Calls Responsule. Denver, ColO., March 21 Announce-ment Announce-ment made today by officials of The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company of a change in Its ! two-number" toll service will affee' many of the Cltlai and towns in Its territory This change Increase! the time limit allowed on "two-number" from three to five minutes, but j does not Increase the cost This "two-number" service was inaugurated in-augurated about two years aso. and according to tho company has become ' er popular with the telephone-using I I public I "Th- change was made." said a J company official today, "because of the great demand for the Berries A couple of years ago this service 'vns Inaugurated In many purts of tbe ter- Jj ritory where a community of interests prevailed- betwru exchanges that j were reasonably close together, hav-Ing hav-Ing .i considerable volume of tiuslness. but were connoctod to our long-dis- jj innot. vMtem. It was felt that under (use .-ondltlons an express service OOUld bo lurnishod at a cheaper rate, ths s--iint; being In the fact that our operator would not have to look up numbers. The service immediately he-cams he-cams popular and has continued ao. j Over 40 per cent of this 'two-number' 8ervlcn is confined to social calls made by tbe fair sex. and this perhaps has been the underlying cause for our change from three to five minutes j Four minutes and nine seconds Is the , LTerage length of these calls, while j ths svsrage business talk is some- -thins under three minutes No chanpo is to be made In th" rate." (Advt) |