Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Southern Bell dialing changes in 404 area code Message-ID: Date: 31 May 89 12:49:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 19 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 182, message 6 of 7 In article , scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes: (regarding the new area code in the Atlanta, GA area)... > They are trying to put off the inevitable. I understand that since I > was living in New York when they made Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten > Island area code 718. Initially, it really can be confusing and > frustrating and I guess New York Tel. dropped a bundle in advertising. I read in the Newark NJ Star-Ledger that New Jersey Bell plans to spend approximately $7Million on "consumer education" in preparation for the new area code (908) coming to parts of Northern and Central New Jersey in 1991. (I think this includes reprinting the directory, but they do that every year whether or not they're changing the dial-plan, don't they?) -- Dave Levenson (the man in the mooney) {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave