Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Allowing NXX Prefixes & Area Codes Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 89 22:34:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: goudreau@rtp48.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 38 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 473, message 7 of 10 In article cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: >Based on notes arriving via TELECOM Digest, I have the following to >pass along: >919, North Carolina, 1989? (need area code on toll calls within it) A blurb I saw in the local paper a while ago mentioned that 11-digit intra-NPA long-distance dialing would replace 8-digit LD in all of NC starting early in 1990. This supposedly applies to *both* 919 and 704, and to all telcos (Southern Bell, GTE, Carolina Telephone, and a host of little Mom & Pop operations). No mention of when 919 (which is getting fairly full) is scheduled to split, or how it would be split. Anyone care to speculate on who will get left out in the cold (i.e., the new NPA) when this does happen? It isn't an obvious split (like, say, 617/508) since 919's two largest urban areas (Raleigh/Durham and Greensboro/Winston-Salem) have roughly the same population but are about 80 miles apart. If one urban area has to get assigned to the new NPA, which one is it? The alternative would be to leave *both* of them in 919, thus potentially making both 919 and the new NPA exceedingly contorted, perhaps like 619 in California. Now, on a completely different note... Does anyone out there know why "011" was chosen as the international access code here in the North American Numbering Plan? If it were up to me, I'd probably pick "11" instead (i.e., "1" for long distance and "11" for *very* long distance, the way many European countries use "0" and "00"). Is there currently some special meaning assigned to "11"? Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA