Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: IZZYAS1@mvs.oac.ucla.edu (Andy Jacobson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Where Do You Live? In a Cave? Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 14:50:00 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 38 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 176, Message 6 of 6 The new GTE phone books just came out on the westside of L.A. This is that wonderful part of town that will be switched entirely to NPA 310 on November 2 of this year. The phone book will be current to March of next year. The entirety of what GTE says about the new area code is limited to a tiny note on the bottom right of the cover of the book, saying only "Introducing new area codes 310 and 510 -- see information pages", and one page, after the civic, first aid, and earthquake info at the very end of the information pages that preface the book. This page is separate from all other telco related stuff, and is so vague, it doesn't even mention when permissive dialing ends for this area. It appears to be a poor rip off of the page in the PacBell directories in this state, but with GTE's usual less information. The only other reference I could find is the 310 region on the countrywide LD map, but not on the state map, which says in bold letters "YOUR AREA CODE IS 213**", the asteriks refering to a tiny note at the bottom of the page about 310. Otherwise the phonebook says nothing, and has 213 this and that all over it. There is no mention of any changes in the material about calling zones and rates, even the list of all prefixes in the area code makes no mention of any changes. Randy Borow writes: > Well, when the permissive dialing was stopped on Feb. 9th last year > and the 708/312 codes became mandatory, IBT had to open several > operator services centers which were normally closed at the time just > to handle the flood of calls. So far there has been no publicity whatsoever. The only info available to the public was a newspaper article a while back. If their phone book is any indication of what they will do, GTE will be in big trouble. Period. Andy Jacobson or