Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!apple!sun-barr!texsun!pollux!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: argyriou@violet.berkeley.edu (Anthony Argyriou) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NPA 903 assigned to NE Texas Message-ID: Date: 12 May 89 20:23:09 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Anthony Argyriou Lines: 24 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 162, message 2 of 12 In article covert%covert.DEC@decwrl. dec.com (John R. Covert) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 160, message 6 of 8 >It was just announced that those portions of 214 outside Dallas will be >changed to 903 in the Fall of 1990. >With 708 assigned to Chicago, 903 assigned to Texas, and 908 assigned to >New Jersey, only 909 and 917 remain to be assigned before the format changes. >/john PacBell announced a while ago that Alameda and Contra Costa counties were being split off of the 415 (San Fransisco) area code, but haven't announced a number for the new area. Giving us 909 isn't too good, being adjacent to 707 (CA North Coast + Solano Co.). 917 is worse, because some of Contra Costa County is adjacent to 916 (Sacramento Valley). Those of us here thought that we'd get 903, because it was most unlike the nearby area codes. (708 and 908 are similar to 408, Santa Clara Co and south). How do they choose these numbers? Who chooses? Why did Dallas suburbs get 903? Is either 909 or 917 unsuitable there? Anthony Argyriou