Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil> (06/14/91)
I just got a message about some COCOTs not recognizing area codes 903 and 908, both of which have been fully cut over. Do the proposed or current COCOT regulations require up-to-date information for new area codes and prefixes, or did I overlook something in skimming over the mail? Failure of a system to recognize a new area code or prefix can be quite annoying, and my office (in eastern Maryland) is getting a new area code before this year is out. Over the years, I have heard (in this Digest and elsewhere) about problems in recognizing the following: N0X/N1X prefixes in Los Angeles area before 1980 (that's when New York City started getting them); 301-850 at or near the Baltimore-Washington International Airport; 202-994 in Washington, DC; 508 area code in Massachusetts.
stv@uunet.uu.net> (06/19/91)
> N0X/N1X prefixes in Los Angeles area before 1980 (that's when New York > City started getting them); I had a 213-413 number in L.A. in 1976. I'm not surprised that COCOTs didn't know about them then, though -- I had trouble with human operators believing that I had such a phone number. Steve Vance {hplabs,lll-winken,pacbell}!well!stv well!stv@lll-winken.llnl.gov