Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: cmoore@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 1+areacode Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 89 17:04:14 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 16 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 40, message 5 To answer Tanner: To reach the 201-615 prefix from anywhere in the 201 area (even if long distance), you would dial only 615-xxxx. This is not confused with calling area 615 in Tennessee, because that requires 1-615-xxx-xxxx. On direct dial calls, you apparently NEVER depend on timeout. In some areas, you dial (or used to dial) 1+number to call long distance within your areacode. This held for Maryland (also in 703 area in Va.) outside the DC area, but now there are N0X/N1X prefixes in the Washington DC area, so that usage of 1+number was changed to 1+areacode+number, using your own areacode. (DC and suburbs had used areacode+number for long distance, even within 301 or 703, but this also changed to 1+areacode+number.) In areas NOT having 1+number usage, the leading 1 means that what follows is an area code.