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From: Doug Davis <doug@letni.uucp>
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Subject: Re: Dallas Area Code Split
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Date: 12 Feb 90 15:28:39 GMT
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In article <3742@accuvax.nwu.edu> TAXMAN@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Mike Wommack)
writes:

>I saw an item couple of weeks ago mentioing that Dallas was going to 
>have its own area code. Anyone have any details on this?

Depending on how you look at it, Dallas already has it's own area
code, it's all the suburbs that don't ;-)

Actually a farly large portion of North Texas is covered under the
current 214 area code. This includes several sizable towns Sherman,
Tyler, etc, that are geographicly a considerable distance from Dallas.
Also over the past few years the busniess population in Dallas has
swelled causing SWB (South Western Bell) to worry about a NXX
shortage.  Given SWB's description 903 Could be considered everything
east of Fort Worth, That isn't Dallas county. Matter of course except
where GTE is concerned everything outside of Dallas county will become
903.  Now the last I heard was that GTE and SWB were arguing about the
border location in Denton County (GTE Territory).

IMHHBO, GTE has a bunch of really archaic equipment in Denton that
they don't want to re-program.

I'll call some people in SWB today and see if I can get a list of the
boundery areas and pass them along to the Digest.


doug