Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: peter%ficc@uunet.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: When We Run Out of NXX Area Codes Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 15:38:55 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 14 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 521, message 6 of 10 In my previous message, I mixed up exchanges and area codes. Let's run this through again: What happens when we run out of 3-digit area codes? Do we go to 4-digit area codes, 8- or 9- digit local numbers, or split Zone 1? (And, again, I know this will take a while.) `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "vi is bad because it didn't work after I put jelly in my keyboard." -- Jeffrey W Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)