Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Area Code 408 and 1+ Dialing Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 11:35:38 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 168, Message 5 of 15 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu I lived in San Jose from 1985 - 1987, and use of 1+ was permissive at that time. Indeed, I'm quite skeptical of the articles that have appeared recently mentioning that until recently the use of 1+ was prohibited. It may have been prohibited for calls within 408, but the discussion about San Jose being the last area in the country to allow not using 1+ has centered on dialing other area codes. Also, I saw just one too many of the ads with the AT&T clown sweeping up to the charming background voices singing, "Dial One, Plus the Area Code (if different from your own), then the Number!" to believe that 1+NPA+Number was prohibited anywhere, at least in the last fifteen or twenty years, for calls to other area codes. Linc Madison = linc@tongue1.berkeley.edu P.S. Just my $0.000002 worth on "correct way to write phone numbers": I prefer (NPA) NXX-XXXX because it allows easier visual "chunking" for memory purposes. It is also the way that the vast majority of all phone numbers I have ever seen printed have been formatted; using periods between the numbers is almost unheard-of in the U.S.