Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: It is Now Official: 416 to be Split Into 905 Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 14:31:12 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 11 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 256, Message 7 of 10 The code Woody had written about as a possibility for the splitoff from 416 was 210, not 410. (This was before 905 was announced.) 410 has already been announced as new area code for eastern Maryland. 903 came into use as an area code last year by splitting 214 in Texas. And yes, when N0X/N1X area codes are used up, area codes will have to generalize to NXX form. As I explain in my area code history file, this causes dialing changes so that timeouts can be avoided; if your area has had to program for N0X/N1X PREFIXES, you already have allowed for NNX area codes.