Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 10:12:50 EDT From: Paul S R Chisholm Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 908 Area Code Switchover Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories 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 436, Message 5 of 11 Lines: 23 Tom Neff writes: > Just a reminder that New Jersey's 908 area code becomes mandatory on > Saturday, June 8, 1991 at 2 A.M. This affects 1.5 million phones > (314 exchanges) in central New Jersey, formerly part of 201. The > area code has been available since January 1990. As of Saturday you > will get a recording if you still dial 201. (I think it's been mostly working since June 1990, though certain operations in the network didn't accept 908 until January 1991.) I'm typing this on Friday (10 a.m. EDT), and my office mate just made a discovery: from a phone in 908, trying to dial a number that will still be 201 tomorrow results in the following message: "Your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and try again. 201-2T." Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories, paul.s.r.chisholm@att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.