Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 9:43:00 EDT From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Maryland N0X Prefix Local to PA and WV Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 502, Message 8 of 11 Lines: 16 301-707 in Cumberland, Md. appears in the call guide for March, 1991 Allegany County (MD) C&P directory. It is treated exactly the same as the other Cumberland prefixes, and is thus listed as having local service to a few points in PA (area 814) and WV (area 304). The call guide also gives the local calling area for Ridgely, WV, and it includes Cumberland! So Ridgely (726 and 738 in area 304) has a 707 prefix as a seven-digit local call; notice that leading 0 or 1 is required if you are in the Ridgely exchange and using 707 as an area code (California, northern coastal area). Possibly some reprogramming, transparent to the customers, was required in those out-of-Maryland prefixes which are local to Cumberland, because I noticed years ago that if I attempted a long distance call of NPA + 7D form in Newark, Delaware, I got a message telling me to use the leading 1.