Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!nobody From: roy@phri (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: splitting area codes Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 88 17:23:01 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 181, message 7 > A few years ago, when they split New York City into 212 and 718, there > was a lot of fuss. Not only did people sue to try and prevent the split, but they sued because it wasn't fast enough! I think the cut-over day was supposed to be Jan 1st. Not surprisingly, it took a few days to get everything cut over properly. Some business people in Brooklyn (718) sued NY Telephone because they were promised that the cut would be on Jan 1 and it wasn't! I don't remember if anything ever came of the suit; I assume it was thrown out of court because by the time anything could have been done, the job was long over. It's not like these people were being denied phone service; calls to 212 still went through. Even today, several years after the split, I still get "please dial 718 before your number" recordings when I forget to do so. BFD. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"