Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!labrea!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!vector!nobody From: cmoore@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: splitting area codes Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 88 21:47:54 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 12 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 199, message 6 Many digests ago, I had a note in about a song lament which included "when we were 212"! I also heard of some uproar that outsiders might not recognize a 718-area number as being a "New York City number". As has been said earlier, phone co. reserves the right to change phone numbers (this includes area code, right?) if required in the course of its operations, and it's only by courtesy that they give some advance notice to businesses in the affected areas. The need to minimize such adverse impact does cause a conservative approach: "Don't change if you don't have to"; for example, if an area code is split, the local 7-digit number is not changed (although this was bent in some cases to avoid splitting some towns along the 213/818 border in California; I don't know specific cases there).