Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lotus!rnewman@uunet.uu.net (Ron Newman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Zone Maps Are Desirable (was Criss-Cross) Message-ID: <14437@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Nov 90 13:14:40 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Ron Newman Organization: Lotus Development Corp. Lines: 29 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 796, Message 9 of 11 New England Telephone doesn't publish a map, but their Boston-area white pages do have four pages of listings matching the first three digits of any Massachusetts phone number (area codes 413, 508, and 617) to a city, town, or subdistrict of Boston. The table entries look like this: Code Location 221 Burlington 223 Boston 427 Roxbury ... and so on. To the phone company, "Boston" is a very small district comprising downtown, Back Bay, and some very close-in neighborhoods (North End, South End, West End); the rest of the city is divided into smaller, well-known districts like "Mattapan", "Dorchester", "Brighton", and "Roxbury". Another page of the book lists all towns and subdistricts in the Boston area, and which exchanges are found in them. I know that the phone companies in Los Angeles publish similiar information in the front of their directories; I'm surprised to read that every U.S. phone company doesn't do this! Ron Newman