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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: Re: New Area Code for New York City - Plans Changed
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Date: 19 Dec 90 20:49:45 GMT
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Questions:

Are there prefix duplications between the Bronx and the current 718
area (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island)?

You have written that about 20% of the 2.5 million numbers in area 212
are used for cellular and paging.  How much of that 2.5 million is
taken up by the Bronx?

When is it proposed to put the Bronx in 718 (which obviously must have
the room to add the prefixes used by the Bronx)?  And how does that
push back the 212/917 split (given the recovery of the prefixes now
used in the Bronx)?

The change means that the Bronx-Westchester line will become the
border between 718 and 914.  Putting Bronx in 917 would have put 914
and 917 along that line instead.