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Subject: Re: Modifying the NANP?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 23:32:53 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 822, Message 12 of 14


As Doug Reuben pointed out, 908 is in New Jersey (it's being formed by
splitting 201), not New York.  In a posting some months(?) ago, I
cited a {N.Y. Times} article saying that the latest proposal for
implementing the 917 area code, given that only one borough line
remains WITHIN 212, was to put Manhattan's cellular and mobile lines
along with all of the Bronx into 917; only the Manhattan land lines
would remain in 212.

Much further back, someone (not me) put down the idea of putting new
telephone listings into new area codes.  Area codes are being kept
contiguous (right) to avoid confusion.  (The Manhattan overlay -- see
above -- is unprecedented.)  The weirdest shape for an area code that
I know of is that of 409 (formed 1983 by splitting 713) in Texas; it's
got the pre-split 713 area except for a hole punched out for Houston
and nearby suburbs.  (As for new listings, they are likely to go into
new PREFIXES within a given exchange area; for example, I am on
302-731 and I know of newer arrivals on 302-292 in Newark, Delaware.)

Yes, I am aware of the NN0 area codes, to start coming on line when
the N0X/N1X are used up.  But wasn't there a note in the Digest saying
that Mexico will (then or later) become reachable via pseudo area
codes of 52x form (where x won't be zero)?

Afterthought: 917 in Bronx would be right next door to 914 in
Westchester.


[Moderator's Note: Carl, I think you might agree that 312/708 has some
odd boundary lines also, with one small section of 312 completely
surrounded by 708 at Ohare Airport and one section of 708 completely
surrounded by 312 on the northwest side of Chicago in an area not
actually in the city.  PAT]