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From: Ron Newman  <lotus!rnewman@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Numbering Plan Changes (was Re: Is 510 Area Code Active?)
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> [Moderator's Note: Another good example is little Rhode Island. All of
> an area code for what? ... a couple hundred thousand phones at most?  PAT]

You'd be surprised, but the 1980 census shows 947,154 people living in
Rhode Island.  That's more than the District of Columbia and at least
ten states, including Alaska, New Hampshire, Nevada, and Delaware.

Ron Newman