Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: pkh%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Kevin Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: London (UK) New Area Codes. Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 89 15:37:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: K.Hopkins%computer-science.nottingham.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Lines: 31 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 249, message 5 of 6 In his message Julian Macassey said: -> But I have read nothing here about it yet, and am sure some of -> would like to know. Try the archives late April / early May, I sent a full description of the notification that BT had released to their UK customers. I can't find my copy of that digest just now, and I'm off on my holidays tomorrow, otherwise I would have tried to find it. -> The change is to 2 digits if you consider the 0 digit is a leader as the -> 1 digit is in the U.S. i.e. 1(213). Like many other countries - Japan I believe is one of them along with West Germany, rest of Europe, etc. - we don't consider 0 to be a leader. It is an intergral part of our area codes. London is considered to be moving to *3* figure area codes from next May. -> The master plan they say is to have all major cities with a 3 -> digit (0NN) area code. All major cities will in fact have a 0N1 code, the rest use 0NMN where M is the digits 0 and 2-9. The "master plan" is completed on 6th May 1990. These are not flames, just clearing up a few points. +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | K.Hopkins%cs.nott.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | Kevin Hopkins, | | or ..!mcvax!ukc!nott-cs!K.Hopkins | Department of Computer Science,| | or in the UK: K.Hopkins@uk.ac.nott.cs | University of Nottingham, | | CHAT-LINE: +44 602 484848 x 3815 | Nottingham, ENGLAND, NG7 2RD | +--------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+