Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us (Eric Schnoebelen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NPA 903 assigned to NE Texas Message-ID: Date: 14 May 89 20:37:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us Organization: John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc., Lewisville, Tx. Lines: 33 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 165, message 7 of 10 In article Anthony Argyriou writes: - X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 162, message 2 of 12 - 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. - How do they choose these numbers? Who chooses? Why did Dallas suburbs - get 903? Is either 909 or 917 unsuitable there? Well, I just talked to our tariff folks, and 903 is not being assigned to the Dallas suburbs ( unless you consider Tyler a suburb of Dallas :-) According to our tariff folks, it will be the Longview lata ( 544 ) and probably portions of the Houston lata ( 560 ) and the Dallas lata ( 552 ). Geographically, I have been told it will go from Tyler east to the state line, and south from the state line to a someplace south of Palestine. As to what area codes are suitable in this area, well Fort Worth ( the unheard of half of Dallas/Ft. Worth ) is in the 817 area code, as well as nearly everything else west of Dallas. Even Waco on the south, and Denton on the north are in area code 817. That probably makes 917 unsuitable.. About 909, I don't know. Maybe Southwestern Bell made it to Bellcore before Pacific Bell. :-) -- Eric Schnoebelen, JBA Incorporated, Lewisville, Tx. egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us ...!killer!u-word!egs "...we have normality"..."Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem..." -- Trisha McMillian, HHGG