Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Numerical List of NPA's and NXX Count Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 00:08:13 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Colin Plumb Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 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 452, message 2 of 6 In article cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: > You write: >> 416 recently removed the has allowed the implementation of NXX where >> previously only NNX was allowed. > Did you mean to delete "removed the"? Also, you are sure you are > referring to 416 (Ontario) instead of 415 (Calif.)? (If 416, it's new > info for me.) New to me, too, and while not at university I live in 416. One thing I rather like about the local phone service is that all LD calls must be prefixed with "1". If you try to dial an exchange in 416 that's not in the local calling area (i.e. metered call), you get a recording "You have dialled a number to which long distance charges apply" followed by dial-1-first instructions. I suppose you could do it if you changed the current 1+NNX-XXXX to 1+416+NXX-XXXX, but I'd think I'd have heard about it. From other discussions, I gather that in some places, normal 7-digit calls can be long distance, so you have to dig through the phone book to figure out whether it costs you anything. I prefer "leading 1 means special billing." I've never tried dialling an 800 number without the 1 to see if it works. I should sometime. -Colin