Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New 410 Code for MD Message-ID: <14857@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 15:23:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 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 836, Message 4 of 10 I don't know what the meaning is of John Covert's objection to "four-ten", although I always read area codes as, say, "three one two" and not "three twelve". Comment on the Moderator's Note: Exchange names were dropped in favor of all-digit telephone numbers, partly to eliminate confusion between "1" and "I", and also between "0" (zero) and "O" (letter), and thus it is not that likely that "oh" used nowadays will be read as the letter "O". Bob Goudreau writes about Baltimore being removed from area 301. When Virginia was split in 1973, Richmond and Norfolk went into 804, and the DC area along with western Virginia stayed in 703. It will be interesting to see what's done in the Laurel and Annapolis areas. Along with the "default" exchanges (which you would find on pay phones in those areas), they have pseudo-foreign exchanges providing metro service for both DC and Baltimore areas. It reminds me of the Los Angeles foreign exchanges (which stayed in area 213 at the 213/818 split) used in places like Burbank and Pasadena, whose other exchanges were put in 818. Baltimore and DC metro areas practically touch or overlap nowadays, and the 301/410 line will have to pass somewhere between those cities. Laurel, except for the Baltimore-metro exchange 792 (and possible newer ones), is local to Washington, and I'm wondering about local service across 301/410 line. Columbia (to go into 410?) has local service (seven digit, as it's all within the present area 301) north to Baltimore and south to Silver Spring, right next door to DC.