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From: prindle@NADC.ARPA (F. Prindle)
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Subject: New area code 890!
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 08:04:49 EDT
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An insert in my latest phone bill says AT&T is going to start using the 890
area code to augment it's current 800 toll free service; I suppose, with the
need to allocate some of the 800 prefixes to the alternates, they have simply
run out of prefixes in 800.  But 890 surely is a strange area code, with that
9 in the middle; my ESS currently doesn't parse 1-890-xxx-xxxx correctly,
thinking that it is a local prefix of 890 and not an area code.  Is this the
first area code that is not N0X or N1X?
Frank Prindle
Prindle@NADC.arpa