Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: New Jersey area code split Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 89 18:12:39 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 148, message 2 of 11 In 1991, area code 908 will be allotted to Central New Jersey. The area affected, according to the Star Ledger of 4/26/89, will be Union, Warren, Middlesex, Hunterdon, Somerset, and Monmouth counties, along with part of Morris County, and the part of Ocean County in the 201 area code now. All of these areas are in the 201 area code. This change will require 1+AC+number dialing between the 201 and 908 areas, but the rates for these calls will not change. This dialing change includes local calls between area codes, which will be free, but will require all 11 digits. This will certainly affect UseNet, as many of the numbers for ATT sites and Rutgers will be changing to the new area code. An interim step, to alleviate the number shortage until the new area code can be implemented, will be that beginning in October, calls to New York and Pennsylvania from New Jersey, which can now be dialed with just 7 digits will be required to use the full 1+AC+number. Customers affected by this will be notified in June. This measure will free 24 exchanges, which should suffice until the new area code is implemented. Mark