Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NJ A/C Split and Cellular Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 89 04:54:23 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 32 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 544, message 4 of 8 In article , judice@sulaco.enet. dec.com (Louis J. Judice 27-Nov-1989 0951) writes: > Of course the fun thing about the impending A/C split here is how it > will confuse cellular users... > It will be almost mandatory to use at least 10-digit dialing on most > calls. Along the 201/908 border it's fairly hilly, and the location > of most of the cell sites. It shouldn't be all that confusing... I routinely travel from my place of business, in what is currently 201 but will soon be 908, across 212 and 718 and into 516 land (I have a customer in Islip, NY). It doesn't matter what area code I'm driving in or where the cell site is (or whether it's MetroOne or CellularOne) the originating area code is stored in eprom in my mobile set, not in the cell site transmitter station. The dialing procedure, for subscribers of MetroOne, is uniform throughout 203, 914, 212, 718, 516, 201, 609, 215, and is determined by the home areacode assigned to the individual subscriber. I, too, have a 201 mobile number (in Hackensack) and I'm planning to ask for a number-change to a Somerset County exchange -- both to save on toll charges when the office is calling the car, and to make the home area code for the cellular set match the home area code for the wired sets. 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