Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dialing Away US Area Codes Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 89 16:46:45 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 533, message 5 of 10 Comments (yes, I know these were copied from an article, so that "you" refers to the article's author): > ...152 available codes... > The current unassigned codes include 210, 310, 410, 706, 810, 905, > 909, 910 and 917. The Chicago area took the 708 code, and New Jersey > will take 908. How do you arrive at 152? There are 160 N0/1X numbers (eight N00 and eight N11 among them; also, 610 is not listed as available). As has been noted in this digest previously, there will be 903 in Texas and 510 in California. > Under the current plan, a 0 or a 1 is used as the second digit > while the first and last digits can range between 2 and 9. NO -- last digit can be 1; also there's upcoming 510. [Moderator's Note: I am still curious to find out the use of 710. This one is listed with the cryptic notation 'special goverment services' or 'government special services' with no further information posted in the listings of same. Does anyone have any ideas? PT]