Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 15-Aug-1990 1021" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 1-555-1212 for Local Directory Assistance? Message-ID: <10934@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 15 Aug 90 14:20:19 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 38 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 573, Message 10 of 12 From: Greg Monti Date: 15 August 1990 Subject: Re: 1-555-1212 for Local Directory Assistance? "DOUGLAS SCOTT REUBEN)" writes: > 555-1212 - calls within the area code but not local (but almost ALL calls > in each of the area codes are local, except to/from Staten Island > or the Bronx in some limited cases...) Nope. Everything within New York City is local, whether within an NPA or between them, whether crossing a body of water or not. John Cowan writes: > Prior to the 212/718 split here in New York City, the standard method > for getting DA in Manhattan & Bronx was to dial 411; for DA in > Brooklyn, Queens & Staten Island (later to become the 718 NPA), > 555-1212 was standard. I don't know if this was mandatory or just the > recommended procedure. I believe the recommended procedure in the New York area is implied rather than spelled out in the directory: For numbers that would appear in the printed directory serving the area where the phone you are calling from is located, i.e., the directory for your home county or borough: 411. For numbers within your area code but outside the area where your home printed directory is distributed: 555-1212. ("1" never used for seven-digit calls.) For anything else: ("1," if rqd locally) + NPA + 555-1212. Greg Monti, Arlington, Virginia; work +1 202 822-2633