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Subject: New 410 Code For MD
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Date: 19 Nov 90 03:43:45 GMT
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 From: {The Washington Post}, Sat Nov 17 1990

2nd Area Code for Md.

  Maryland will get its second telephone area code next year.

  The entire state now uses a single area code, 301. The Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland said Friday a second code is
needed to accommodate requests for telephone service and for
telecommunications services such as mobile phones, facsimile machines
and beepers.

The new 410 area code will serve metropolitan Baltimore, the entire
Eastern Shore, Calvert County and the majority of Carroll, Howard and
Anne Arundel counties.

  The rest of the state will use the existing 301 area code.

  "There will be no change in rates customers are charged, and there
will be no change in local calling areas," said C&P spokesman Al
Burman.

  The new area code will be phased in over the next two years.
Customers will be encouraged to begin using it next November. During
most of 1992, customers will be able to use either 301 or 410 to place
calls to the 410 area code. In November, 1992, customers will have to
use the correct area code. Using the wrong one will cause them to hear
a recorded message.


Michael Katzmann	  Broadcast  Sports Technology
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[Moderator's Note: Thanks also to Roger Fajman <raf@cu.nih.gov>
for an almost identical article he submitted.   PAT]