Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!samsung!rex!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Inter-NPA Calls and Number Conservation Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 89 03:32:17 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 33 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 518, message 8 of 11 In article , johnl@esegue.segue. boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: > Nope, you never need an area code to make a local call in NJ. NJ Bell > seems to feel very strongly like that. I grew up in Princeton... > .... I bet when they split 201/908 you'll be able to dial across > that boundary with seven digits, too. That's not what they're telling us. Here in Warren Township, we will be in 908. The next C.O. north of us will remain 201. We are told by the Newark Star-Ledger (and _they_ know it all, don't they?) that we'll be dialing local calls to nearby points on the other side of the line with eleven digits. The line between the Millington CO (201-647, 201-580) and Bernardsville CO (201-204, 201-221 and others) will, apparently, become part of the border line between 908 and 201. The folks in the Southern half of the town of Basking Ridge have 647 or 580 numbers today. They'll apparently be using eleven digit dialing to call their neighbors in the same town who have 221 or 766 numbers. If they didn't do this, the area-code split wouldn't be nearly as useful in saving numbers, as they'd have protected prefixes all along both sides of the entire border. (But then, the Star-Ledger has been wrong before... Does anybody know for sure?) 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