Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Area-Code 714 Will be Split Message-ID: <68900@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 17:33:26 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: Bill Huttig Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 37 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 827, Message 5 of 11 In article <14716@accuvax.nwu.edu> slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades) writes: >2.) Orange County retains 714 while the bordering counties, some of which > are in 714, get the new 909. Most likely. >3.) Have all new phone numbers issued after Jan. 1993 get the > new area-code. (I never heard of this before.) I like it but think how DA would work. How many stupid people would not dial an area code ... wouldn't local calls have to go to ten digit dialing? I dont think it will work ... I wish the phone companies would just go to eight digit local numbers and a diferent area code setup. (They could tell the difference between new numbers and old numbers by the length of them.) >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] PAT - You mean SprintNet ;-) ... Sprint net has not changed the PAD address in the 407 area yet (at least Melbourne, FL) so i doubt they would change any addresses. It seems as though they will keep the old area code boundaries. Bill Moderator's Note: They've done the same thing here. The places now in 708 are still addressed as 312 on SprintNet. My local dial-in is now a 708 number in Glencoe, IL, but when on line, doing a @STAT returns an answer of 312 something. PAT]