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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: New Prefixes in Maryland
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Date: 30 Oct 90 18:04:00 GMT
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Area code 301:

996 (formerly serving area near Stewartstown, Pa.?) is now at Elkton.
This puts it two exchanges away from Newport, Delaware, which includes
302-996; but Elkton has no local service to Delaware, even though
Delaware is right next door.

Also, I just got a look at the new (Oct. 1990) Northeastern Maryland
call guide (Harford County edition), and find these prefixes I had not
seen before:  307 Towson;  316 Cockeysville, 569;  Edgewood.

Comments: Towson and Cockeysville are NORTHERN suburbs of Baltimore
(notice the N0X/N1X prefixes above); I know of no N0X/N1X prefixes in
Virginia beyond the DC calling area, and I am sure Maryland has
shorter supply of phone numbers than does area 703, which includes Va.
suburbs of DC.  569 is Edgewood (verified by checking with AT&T
operator and by dialing 569-xxxx from pay phone and having it treated
as local call); thus 569 has vanished from Severn.  569 at Severn was
a local call from 621,261,etc., but had to be dialed 1-301-569-xxxx
from those places because of 569 also being used at Springfield, Va.
(703 area); what becomes of subscribers who were on 301-569 at Severn?