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From: slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades)
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Subject: Area-Code 714 Will be Split
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Date: 14 Nov 90 19:03:39 GMT
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The folks at GTE and Pac*Bell held a press conference yesterday
announcing that they will be splitting area-code 714, which serves
Orange County in Southern California.

The new area-code will be 909 (gasp!).  They will be holding public
hearings as to how the area will be split.  Several plans are in the
offering:

1.) Have Pac*Bell's area retain 714 while GTE gets 909.

2.) Orange County retains 714 while the bordering counties, some of which
    are in 714, get the new 909.

3.) Have all new phone numbers issued after Jan. 1993 get the 
    new area-code. (I never heard of this before.)

Pac*Bell claims that the proliferation of cellular phones and pagers
are causing them to run out of numbers in 714 sooner than expected.
This will be the second time 714 was split.  The first was several
years ago when San Diego and the desert areas broke away to form 619.

The new area code will be effective in Jan of 1993.


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[Moderator's Note: And 619 is *hardly* an over-populated area code.
You'd think they could have shoved the boundaries around on that one a
little and recovered quite a bit of territory.  Currently Telenet uses
909 as the 'area code' for their administrative lines in Virginia. I
guess they will change it to something else starting in a couple
years.  PAT]