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Subject: More Splitsville
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Date: 13 Nov 90 21:00:47 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 819, Message 6 of 9


 
  PacBell and GTE just announced a proposal to split the current 714
area code (Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino counties) in two,
taking effect in January 1993. Boundaries are not firm (hearings will
be held) but it is expected that Orange County (Disneyland, Knotts
Berry Farm, and many other attractions) will stay in the 714 code and
the remaining counties will receive a new one. The newspaper article
doesn't mention it but a TV report specified 909 and the area code
list in the archives shows that as unassigned. The reason given was
the proliferation of phone numbers (as with the 213-310 split for Los
Angeles). This was probably exacerbated by growth rates of Riverside
and San Bernadino (due to housing costs elsewhere) and the
proliferation of cellular phones and faxes and modems in Orange
County, which is a relatively affluent area.
 

Jeff Sicherman