Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!bbn!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: bovine!john@apple.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 1+ dialing and new AC for SF Bay Area? Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 89 07:29:36 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 9, issue 25, message 2 As in many other areas of the country, SF Bay Area will now be faced with those dreaded "informal" prefixes. You know, the ones that look like area codes. This is the reason for the "1" before dialing a ten-digit number. But the southern part of the Bay Area, in 408, still does not require a "1" before dialing an area code. A spokesperson for Pac*Bell says that due to lack of growth, there are no plans to implement "informal" prefixes and hence no "1" requirement in the forseeable future. How many other areas of the country are left where a "1" is not required for long distance? Is this one of the last? Interestingly enough, San Jose and Sunnyvale are in 408 and Mountain View/Los Altos are in 415. This is all one local calling area. To place the local call, it is necessary to dial the area code. When calling San Jose from Mountain View a "1" will be required; when calling Mt. View from San Jose it will not. Can you say confusing? -- John Higdon john@bovine ..sun!{apple|cohesive|pacbell}!zygot!bovine!john