Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: dts@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Daniel Senie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 1+ dialing and new AC for SF Bay Area? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 89 04:26:43 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 22, message 4 In article , wales@CS.UCLA.EDU writes: > My parents (in San Mateo, CA -- a suburb of San Francisco -- "415" area > code) told me that, starting in February, they will have to start dial- > ing "1" before area codes. (Up till now, they've just dialed the area > code and the seven-digit number.) > When New York City was running out of numbers, they started requiring 1 + for long distance. They then proceeded to use area code style numbers for prefixes. That makes it impossible to sense area codes by the second digit dialed. The phone companies seem to want to get rid of the automatic area code sensing just in case they need to expand exchanges into the area code style numbers. -- Daniel Senie UUCP: harvard!ulowell!cloud9!dts Stratus Computer, Inc. ARPA: anvil!cloud9!dts@harvard.harvard.edu 55 Fairbanks Blvd. CSRV: 74176,1347 Marlboro, MA 01752 TEL.: 508 - 460 - 2686