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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 572, message 1 of 8


   On Tuesday Pacific Bell and General Telephone jointly announced
that on February 1, 1992, 2.4 million telephones in the western and
southern parts of Los Angeles will be assigned area code 310.  The
cause is L.A.'s "voracious" appetite for new technology -- cellular
telephones, pagers, facsimile machines, and modems.  "Simply put, we
are running out of telephone numbers," said Dominic Gomez, Pacific
Bell area vice president.  This marks the first time demand for
technology has been more important than population growth in the
introduction of a new code.  "It looks like we use this technology
more intensively here in L.A. than in New York," said Larry Cox, a
spokesman for GTE California.

   In 310 will be the coastal areas -- from the Ventura county line on
the west to Long Beach on the south -- Westwood (UCLA), Beverly Hills,
and South Central L.A.  Downtown L.A. and Hollywood will remain in
213.  213 will border 310 at La Cienega Blvd. on the west, El Segundo
Blvd.  on the south, and 818 on the north & east.  Small parts of
Culver City and Beverly Hills will be split between 213 and 310;
213-255, -257, -258, and -852 won't become 310.  "They" tried to
divide 213 so that the two pieces would grow at similar rates.

   310 was chosen because seven of the nine area codes available
already were assigned as prefixes in 213, leaving 210 and 310 -- and
they judged 310 was easier to distinguish from 213.

   There will be the usual three-month grace period between Feb. 1 and
May 1, 1992, when phone calls to former 213 prefixes still will go
through.


A. R. White
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, California
90292-6695 
(213) 822-1511, x162            -- (310) xxx-xxxx after 1/31/92
(213) 823-6714  facsimile

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