Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 05-Jan-1990 1526" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 201/908 Split Dates -- Official Word Message-ID: <2631@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Jan 90 04:53:47 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 9, message 3 of 8 OK, here's the official word on what's happening with 908, from the responsible people in the Bellcore and NJ Bell network planning departments: The "network event" beginning permissive dialling was 1 Jan 90. It should be working from everywhere, however, due to the next item, reporting a trouble may not always be effective. For now, it's really a "network event" for people in the telecom industry only. The general public should _continue_to_use_201_ for now. For this reason, I was unable to get _any_ information from normal business office sources. In July 90, NJ Bell will start talking about it in new telephone books. On 6 Jan 91, customers will be told that their numbers are 908 numbers (and I infer that new 908-only prefixes may begin to open). On 8 June 91, the permissive dialling period ends, and 908 must be used for any of the codes transferred in the split. /john