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From: GREEN@wharton.upenn.edu (Scott D. Green)
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Subject: 215 to Join the N0X/N1X World
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Date: 25 Sep 90 14:17:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 685, Message 1 of 10


The {Philadelphia Daily News} reports on Sept. 18 (and Bell of PA's
Newsline confirms today) that 1+ will be prohibited within 215 after
May 20, 1991.  You all know the rest of the story - running out of
prefixes, needing to use prefixes that look like area codes,
forestalling the introduction of a new area code.  And, of course,
after 5/20/91 we won't know if we're making a toll call within 215 or
not.

The Consumer Advocate's Office has no plans to fight the switch, since
it's been in effect in 412 (Pittsburgh area) for more than a year, and
the state PUC hasn't gotten any complaints said a PUC spokesman.

Just to review, local calls are and will remain 7 digits.  Toll calls
within 215 are 1+7 digits.  They will be 7 digits.  Outside 215, 1+10
digits now and later.  Operator calls within 215 are 0+7 digits.  They
will be 0+10 digits.  DA is now 1+555-1212.  After 5/20/91, 555-1212.

The optional period (where you may use the new or the old dialling
schemes) will be 1/1/91 through 5/20/91.