Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Inter-NPA Calls and Number Conservation Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 07:51:58 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 20 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 516, message 3 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. Up until the early 1980's, it was not necessary to dial anything other than the seven-digit number for any call within the Bay Area. This applied to local and toll alike. This was the case even though the southern end of the bay had been 408 since around 1960. Then suddenly, someone decided that they could no longer have non-duplicating prefixes within the metro area. We were all notified that beginning on a certain date, it would be necessary to dial the area code if different. This meant that on that date, a Mountain View caller had to dial 408+7D for a local call to San Jose, or even down the street to Sunnyvale. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !