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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert  25-Jul-1990 1347)
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Subject: Re: Pentagon Moved to Area Code 703
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  From:	Greg Monti: 23-JUL-1990 18:31:00.66
  Subj:	Re: Pentagon Moved to Area Code 703

Carl Moore recently asked, regarding this thread, whether the
Pentagon's local calling area, especially to the north into Maryland,
would change at all as a result of the area code change.

Test calls were made to 703 Pentagon prefixes (with the 703 appended,
but not a "1") from the Gaithersburg, Ashton and Laurel rate areas,
without depositing money, from true C&P of Maryland pay phones.
Unlike COCOTs, C&P pay phones allow one to verify, without depositing
money, whether a call is local by dialing it as if it were local and
listening for the intercept message. If you get the "call cannot be
completed as dialed" or the "you must first dial a 1" intercepts, the
call is toll from that pay phone.  If you get the "a 25 cent deposit
is required before dialing this call" message, it's local.

 From all three rate areas I got the 25-cent message, indicating that
Pentagon is local from Gaithersburg, Ashton and Laurel.

This appears to represent an improved local calling area from the
Pentagon, not a shrinking of it.  If the Northern Virginia white pages
local calling area tables can be believed, Laurel used to be toll from
Pentagon and it's local now.


Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; work +1 202 822 2633