Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 05:24:20 GMT From: Alex Pournelle Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: It is Now Official: 416 to be Split Into 905 Message-ID: Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 278, Message 7 of 11 Lines: 33 dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) writes: > In article , TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony > Harminc) writes: > The plan is to use seven digits for all intra-NPA calls, and 1 + ten > digits for all inter-NPA calls. No timeouts, no ambiguity, and no > sure way to tell the difference between local and toll calls > intra-NPA. Any NXX number can then be used as an area code, and as an > exchange prefix within any area code. In the interest of user- > friendliness, Bellcore recommends not assigning the same NXX as an > area code and as a prefix within the area code. (So we won't have a > 201-201 central office in Northern NJ.) At least in Pac*Swell's southern area, this isn't QUITE true: there *IS* a 213-213 exchange; actually, a "psuedo-exchange"; the Big Book of Prefixes (Higdon will doubtless give out the real name:-) for the L.A. LATA lists 213-213 as "Pseudo-POTS for local 800 service" or something. The indication I got was that it wasn't a "public" exchange, but one for phones the Great Unwashed should never see. Yes, there was also a 213-818, an 818-818 and an 818-213 as I recall. I think they had the same kind of designations. Not a phone-weeny, just leafing through my roommate's stuff, Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3 BIX: alex