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From: "Fred R. Goldstein" <goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: How To Dial Long Distance
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Date: 9 Jan 90 22:49:34 GMT
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In article <2724@accuvax.nwu.edu>, covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert)
writes...

>  From: Greg Monti, National Public Radio; forwarded by John R. Covert 
 
>Syntax 1:  Local within area code:  7 digits
>           Toll within area code:  1 + 7 digits

Or, "1 for toll"

>Syntax 2:  Local within area code:  7 digits
>           Toll within area code:  7 digits

Or, "1 for area code"

>Syntax 3:  Local within area code:  7 digits
>           Toll within area code:  1 + 10 digits

Or, "1 for area code, but you dial your own for toll calls)

>Syntax 4:  Local within area code:  7 digits
>           Toll within area code:  7 digits

>"Syntax 3" is the "new standard" for after "Time T".  It is already in
>effect in 404, 919, 703, 202, 301, 214 (and the new 903?) and soon 416.

I don't think so; rather, Syntax 2 is the "standard".  Syntax 3 is
a hack for people who are so used to "1 for toll" that intra-NPA calls 
must be dialed as inter-NPA.  I think it's a bad idea, and not the
standard.  In any case, 7 digits for inter-area is wrong, since you
have to specify _which_ area code you want.  (NYC has 4, for instance.)

Whether 2 or 3 is adopted doesn't matter to Time T; Syntax 4 must go
away, as must Syntax 1, since both fail to disambiguate between prefix
code and area code.


Fred R. Goldstein   goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com 
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