Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: AMillar@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Area Code 408 and 1+ Dialing Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 00:42:08 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 172, Message 1 of 9 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 once heard a rumor that 408 was the last area code in the NANP >> that allowed ten digit (real ten digit, not 1 + ten) dialing. > This is sometimes confusing. I work in AC 408 where the 1 before the > AC is NOT PERMITTED (this is in Santa Clara county), and I live in 415 > (in Alameda county), where it IS required. Sometimes it takes a few In most of the Santa Clara - San Jose area, the 1 prefix is not required, but it is allowed. I can call from home (North San Jose, 408-945 prefix) with or without the 1. Possibly your PBX at work is programmed to not allow the 1? I'm still used to dialing without the 1, and had an interesting run-in with a COCOT at the Black Angus in Sunnyvale. I picked up the handset and started dialing 800-XXX-X and as soon as it got the seventh digit it told me to insert 20 cents. I read the label, which said to dial 1 + 800 + xxx xxxx. I dialed the 1, and the phone took it. I know, what can you expect from a COCOT, and I should learn to dial 1 anyway, but you know how it goes... :-) Alan Millar AMillar@cup.portal.com