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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: Re: Pentagon Moved to Area Code 703
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Date: 9 Jul 90 20:31:08 GMT
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A recent message in telecom from Greg Monti said that the Pentagon
picked up offices which used to be in Washington, thus (sometime way
back) it was given DC instead of Virginia prefixes.  What place name
will be used for the Pentagon prefixes which have now been put in area
703?

Switching from Washington to Arlington/Alexandria would cause some
changes in the fringes of the calling area.  From the prefixes (other
than DC & Baltimore metro) in the Maryland fringes such as
Gaithersburg and Laurel, DC is local but Virginia is long distance.

And a previous message from me in telecom notes that, despite the
(soon to go away?) ability to make long distance calls to all-but-
outermost Va. & Md. suburbs using area code 202, the already-working
NPA+7D scheme for local DC-area calls will permit area 202 to be used
only for DC prefixes.  I noticed that this NPA+7D can be used even in
one's own NPA in DC-area local calls.

Please correct me if any of this is wrong:

The Pentagon was already reachable as 7D in those extended-area calls
from "Prince William" area.  (Stuart is way down near the North
Carolina border, so there is no danger of prefix duplication involving
694.)  The extended-area calls the other way around now are dialed as
1+703+7D from the Pentagon (they are long distance from DC proper),
and could LATER be reduced to 7, not 10, digits, given that the
Pentagon prefixes are now in 703 area.