Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dialing Area Codes Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 13:41:20 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 28 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 263, message 8 of 8 In article , 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? This is so agravating! Sometimes you can. In NJ, I can dial local calls with or without the home area code. The price is the same, but the call-handling is apparently different. In particular, I can dial another line in the same central office and watch the incoming calling number show up on the Caller*Id display. Placing the same call (from and to the same numbers) but dialing 1+201+the number results in a Caller*Id display of "Out of Area". The call-setup seems to take a few seconds longer, too. Apparently the home area causes the local switch to route the call up the tree a node or two and back down again. -- Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave [Moderator's Note: Dave, in your .signature, you used to say "if you don't wish to eye-dee your number, don't bother calling me", or words to that effect. Did you give up trying to get people to do it? Or was it just the still relatively few number of phones equipped to give it to you? PT]