Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Levine" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Want to Dial the Area Code Even on a Local Call Message-ID: <8230@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 24 May 90 01:34:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 382, Message 7 of 11 While watching the rain at my beach house in New Jersey last weekend, I did a little phone number experimentation. Readers may recall that New Jersey is one of the few places to have a strict implementation of NANP dialing, e.g. seven digits with no area code or else 1+10 digits, completely independent of whether the number called is local, toll, inter- or intra-lata. In has to be, since the 201 area and its soon to be split 908 area have many NXX prefixes, and even though 609 has no NXX, some of the NXX prefixes in 201 are dialable from 609 as seven-digit local calls. I was surprised to discover that any number that I could dial as seven digits, I could also dial as 1-609-NNX-XXXX. This included local, intra-lata, and inter-lata calls. (My beach house is in one of the smallest latas in the country, consting of the small and not very populous strip of the 609 NPA along the coast.) Since New Jersey is now almost entirely ESS except perhaps for some of the independent telcos in the northwest part of the state, I expect that this sort of dialing should work most places in the state. Regards, John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl