Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!compus!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!bu.edu!telecom-request From: arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NXX Count (1-15 Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 22:33:24 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: arnold@audiofax.com Organization: AudioFAX, Inc., Atlanta Georgia Lines: 40 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 147, Message 1 of 11 In article tropix!moscom!de@uu.psi.com (Dave Esan) writes: > #5 404 - no plans to split at this point. I have no data on ten > digit dialling for non-local calls. Within the Atlanta area, 7D. To the rest of 404, 1+404+7D. Other NPAs, 1+NPA+7D. The 1+404+7D is fairly recent, within the past two to four years if I remember right. (If not, someone with a better memory for these things can correct me.) It used to be just 1+7D. It is also a fairly recent innovation to have exchanges that could be area codes, (e.g. 319-xxxx). > Has anyone in Atlanta heard about an impending split? I thought > Atlanta was a major growth area, and as #5 on the NPA chart (and > rising rapidly as 201 and 214 get reduced with the end of permissive > dialling) some thought must have been given. I don't know anything official. Given that the range of avaialable NXX exchanges has increased dramatically recently, it'll probably be a while before 404 splits. But I don't doubt that it will happen; Georgia is currently only two area codes altogether. Probably Atlanta will keep 404 and the rest of North Georgia would get the new area code. The Atlanta LATA is apparently the largest free calling area in the world, from what an adjunct professor who works for Southern Bell once told me. Incidentally, we've had 1 + ten digit dialing here for years and years, at least fifteen, probably more. I was in college in NYC in 1978 when it was just being introduced there, and remember wondering what all the crying and complaining was about. Likewise, I'd never seen PE6-5000 style numbers until I went to NYC, either, and remember thinking how outdated that was. Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. 2000 Powers Ferry Road, #200 Marietta, GA. 30067 INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 933 7612 UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581