Path: utzoo!attcan!cmtl01!matrox!uvm-gen!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: cmoore@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 1+areacode Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 15:39:48 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 10 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 26, message 5 Wasn't it as recent as 1982 when "local & nearby calling" in 415/408 was only 7 digits, even if crossing that areacode boundary? Then, the change made was to require the areacode on all calls, even local, crossing areacode boundary, so you got what New York City had until late 1980. Area 415 is apparently growing fast enough to be running out of NNX. As I recall, all or part of areas 516 and 914 (these pick up NYC suburbs) have not required 1 before area codes, nor has Pittsburgh (area 412), and several years ago I dialed "800" from 3 pay phones in Delaware (prefixes 674, 475, 478) without the leading 1. I don't know if any of these changed.