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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: News From 919
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Date: 3 Mar 90 21:01:15 GMT
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In article <4452@accuvax.nwu.edu>, wolves.uucp!ggw@duke.cs.duke.edu (Gregory 
G. Woodbury) writes:
 
> Greetings from the 919 GTE satrapy!
 
> EXPANSION OF NUMBERING PLAN IN 919
 
> All "long distance" calling in 919 will require access+10 digits
> starting sometime in March, 1990.  The consumers have lots of lead
> time on this one!  2 weeks ago, a few articles appeared in a few
> newspapers around the state revealing that the phone companies are
> running out of exchange numbers in the 919 area code, and soon we will
> have to start dialing all non-local calls with the full 10 digits.
> The selected start date for this new dialing scheme is at midnight
> following Friday, March 2nd, 1990.  Southern Bell is coordinating the
> cutover with all 919 carriers.

It wasn't that much of a surprise.  The _News_and_Observer_ (of
Raleigh) carried an article *last fall* about the coming change.  The
most recent set of Southern Bell phone directories carry big warning
messages about it right on the cover.  The Chapel Hill/Carrboro
directory, for example, came out in December, thus giving its
subscribers at least three months advance notice.  (In contrast, the
Durham directory from GTE (dated January 1990) makes no mention at all
about there being a change -- you have to read the fine print in the
dialing instructions on page 15.)  Also, my phone bill from a couple
of months ago had an insert describing the change.  (Note however,
that I live in Cary, which is in Southern-Bell-land as opposed to the
GTE Satrapy.)

Incidentally, the new 11-digit dialing scheme applies to *both* NPAs
in North Carolina: 919 and 704.  It's not specific to 919.


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