Path: utzoo!censor!geac!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phillipsburg, NJ Message-ID: <16693@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Feb 91 16:52:10 GMT Article-I.D.: accuvax.16693 Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Tom Coradeschi Organization: Electric Armaments Div, US Army Armament RDE Center Lines: 23 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 93, Message 10 of 10 >I visited Phillipsburg, NJ recently (U.S. 22 and I-78 just across the >Delaware River from Easton, PA). Phillipsburg is going into the 908 >area, but I found pay phones displaying 201 in some cases and 908 in >others. (Does someone have the dates for 908 becoming useable and for >the full cutover?) The Phillipsburg prefixes are 213,454,859; and 908 works right now, and is being given out by DA, appears on phone bills, etc. It becomes mandatory on 8 Jun 91. >they are a local call from Easton in 215 area; notice the N1X prefix >(213), but (quite recently) 215 area began requiring 1+NPA+7D instead >of 7D for local calls into a different area code. tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> tcora@dacth01.bitnet [Moderator's Note: These area code changes always take years to get the payphones properly identified for some reason. The Chicago suburban area still has payphones whose number tag reads '312'. I don't think they ever bother to change the number tag. The phones are in 708 of course. PAT]