Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NXX Count (1-15 Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 14:29:38 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 20 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 133, Message 8 of 11 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu What is this 82x series of "area codes"? I already knew about 52x. You have some cases where you say "ten digit dialing"; this should be eleven digits (1 + area code + number), as there are some places where ten digit dialing (leading 1 NOT required) is in effect for local calls crossing an area code border. For example, in the Washington DC area, you dial 7D for local calls within your NPA, NPA+7D for local calls to another NPA, and 1+NPA+7D elsewhere (even to distant parts of 301 and 703). 404 and 512 have 1+NPA+7D for toll calls, including intra-NPA. A split has been announced for 416, but the new area code has not been announced. 919, 205, 602, 206, 703 have 1+NPA+7D, announced if not yet in effect, for all non-local calls. In the case of 703, which wasn't PARTICULARLY crowded, this was because of the N0X/N1X prefixes in the DC area. 215 is in the process of dropping the 1+ for long distance within it.