Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New Jersey area code split Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 89 13:00:19 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 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 150, message 3 of 9 Sure, being involved in the University communcations system, I immediately called our NJ Bell Account Rep on this. He really didn't have any more details that I'd already read in the papers. The boundry falls along the Morris and Union county lines in New Jersey. Those counties and north remain 201, those south (and north of 609, which doesn't fall along county lines) are in the new 908 area code. The LATA boundries remain unchanged (there are three in New Jersey, one covering the 201 area code, and two more dividing the 609 into east (Atlantic) and west (Delaware Valley) LATAs). Cutover is to occur two summers from now. As with other area code splits there will be a time where both the old and new numbers will work. One thing that hasn't fully been worked out yet is a few central offices on the border. There are a handful of distinct towns (political boundries) that would be split by this. Another interesting observation is that this boundry cuts right through the heart of AT&T land. The paper noted that this will cause some substantial amount of money to be spent just dealing with chaning half of their facilities numbers. I suppose it is some kind of revenge on the part of the operating company. -Ron