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From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: 215 Area Code Loses "1" per Newspaper 'Reporter'
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:38:56 GMT
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The Inky  (local name for it) is not know for its technical savvy, but,
in one case she's right.

In B of PA 215 land, any call with a 1 was a toll call and without a 1
a local (free or metered as message units call).  Ok, now not all of
215 was in your local area. (In fact the map is so lopsided I can call
30 miles south or 2 miles north and stay free, more than 2 miles north
is toll).  Anyway if I were to dial to that toll it would have been
1+7digits, thus their software treated the N0/1X as a/c and no N[^01]X
as non area code.  The in 215 no N0/1X exchanges were possible.  Now,
they are changing to 1+ = 11 digits and no 1 = 7 digits, and thus by
dropping the 1, we gain more numbers in 215.

Gee, didn't she make that hard.

Don't worry, on the Inky could have told us in a Major story that no
wonder we feel poor, food prices have been rising at the rate of 7.7%
per month since 1982.  You figure what rate of inflation that is.


Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
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