Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: stevem@fai.fai.com (Steven A. Minneman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: N0X/N1X Prefixes -- First to Change 1+7D to 7D? Message-ID: <16412@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Jan 91 18:35:06 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: stevem@fai.fai.com (Steven A. Minneman ) Organization: Fujitsu Network Switching of America, Inc. Lines: 13 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 66, Message 12 of 16 In article <15921@accuvax.nwu.edu> cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: > ...as far as I can tell, is the first to prepare for such by > removing the 1+ from toll calls within it And in the 415 area, we have never had to use 1+7D. [Moderator's Note: Nor did we in Chicago until a few years ago. For however long we dialed seven digits for anything in the old 312 area, and ten digits for anything else. In order to allow the use of prefixes which 'look like area codes' they started using 1+ here. PAT]