Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dmr@csli.stanford.edu (Daniel M. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dialing Area Codes Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 89 18:38:15 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 16 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 260, message 3 of 8 jimmy@denwa.uucp (Jim Gottlieb) writes: >In article malcolm@apple.com writes: >>Why is it that I'm not allowed to dial the area code when I'm calling >>somebody local? >I have often wondered this myself, especially after living in Japan, >where there is no penalty for dialing your own area code. This works in some places, like 201 New Jersey, and, I believe, 415 Northern California. Dan -- # Daniel M. Rosenberg // Stanford CSLI // Opinions are my own only. # dmr@csli.stanford.edu // decwrl!csli!dmr // dmr%csli@stanford.bitnet