Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: David Lewis Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: California Senate Passes "Area Code Bill" Message-ID: <3512@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 3 Feb 90 18:44:29 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 30 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 75, message 1 of 13 [reference to a California bill requiring telephone companies to respect municipal boundaries when creating new area codes deleted.] I wonder if the telcos could ignore this (or sue the state of California over it) claiming that California does not have jurisdiction? The logic is something like this: The telcos are adhering to an NPA split approved by Bellcore. Bellcore is the administrator of the North American Numbering Plan, responsible to Committee T1 of the American National Standards Institute. ANSI is, I believe, a subsidiary of the Department of Commerce. (We're getting into rather deep bureaucratic waters that I'm not familiar with here; if I'm mistaken, I'm confident someone will correct me...) The Department of Commerce is an executive branch department of the federal government, giving (by long, convoluted reasoning) the federal government jurisdiction over area codes... David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej (@ Bellcore Navesink Research & Engineering Center) "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."