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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: 215 to Join the N0X/N1X World
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Date: 30 Sep 90 02:33:43 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 697, Message 6 of 12


Carl Moore wrote in volume 10, issue 691:

| Local calls WITHIN 215 are and will remain seven digits.  Local calls
| from 215 to outside of 215 are 1+NPA+7D and will stay that way.
| (Someone -- was it JSol? -- sent me a note about trying a local call
| from Pa. to Del. leaving off the 1+ and just using 302+7D in, this
| case, the 215-255 exchange at Kemblesville, Chester County; won't this
| have to be "cleaned up"? and the 1+ required?)

As long as 3-0-2 is never used as a prefix anywhere in area code 215,
it can work.  Generally it's a bad idea to open a prefix that matches
a neighboring area code, since it gets confusing when people tell you
their telephone numbers orally (or advertise them on radio); when one
listens to a telephone number and it begins with the local area code
or one nearby, one shouldn't wonder whether there are seven or four
more digits to come.


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