Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Local Inter-NPA Calls and Number Conservation Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 11:54:02 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 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 524, message 4 of 9 In article you write: >[Moderator's Note: It used to be quite common that prefixes were never >duplicated in neighboring area codes; i.e. nothing in northern Indiana >was ever used in Chicago or Illinois suburbs, etc. 312-396 was never >used here since folks in Antioch, IL had seven digit dialing to their >neighbors in North Antioch, WI (414-396). Illinois Bell quit worrying >about it years ago as the reserve of prefixes ran short. PT] A friend of mine who lived in Chicago about five years ago (+/- ??) had a number in 312 that duplicated the number of a popular resort hotel in 414 (Chicago and Wisconsin, respectively). He frequently got phone calls from people asking to make reservations. My friend patiently explained that the number they wanted was in 414. One guy was so insistent, though, that he had the right number, that my friend finally gave in and let him give the info, told him he had a confirmed reservation, and let him take his chances when he arrived at the hotel. Of course, being secondhand, the above anecdote should be treated as little more than urban lore. Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu