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From: Dave Levenson <dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: I Want to Dial the Area Code Even on a Local Call
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Date: 25 May 90 21:38:40 GMT
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In article <8230@accuvax.nwu.edu>, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us
(John R. Levine) writes:

[in Jew Jersey]:
> 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.)

I have noticed that I can use the home area code everywhere I've tried
it in New Jersey.  This includes a half-dozen central offices in the
North Jersey LATA (201 and 908).


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