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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Allowing NXX Prefixes & Area Codes
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Date: 26 Oct 89 20:50:59 GMT
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>From: Bob Goudreau <goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com>

>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"?

In olden days (e.g. the sixties), in many places Information (remember
that?) was 113, Repair was 114, and Long Distance was 110... as I
recall.  Probably when 011 was selected some areas were still using
these older numbers, or at least they were still reserved.

	/JBL