ted@blia.sharebase.com (Ted Marshall) (03/24/91)
Here in San Jose, Ca (408), the new phone books just came out. With all of the recent talk here about people not finding out in advance about area code splits, I wanted to see what Pac*Bell would have on the upcoming 415/510 split. As expected, there was a page in Customer Guide section outlining both the 415/510 split and the 213/310 split down in L A. In addition, in the main white-pages section, the banner at the top of each odd numbered page reads "415/510 Area Code Split 9-2-91". (The banner on the even numbered pages lists the cities covered, as usual.) It would have been nice if the new banners were more different (grey instead of black, for example) to help catch the eye, but hopefully, this will catch a few people's attention. As a side note, this phone book also has white-page listings for Los Gates, which is serviced by GTE. These listings are in a separate section of the Pac*Bell book. The split warning was not put in the banner in this section, even though it was clearly type-set by the same folks. Ted Marshall ted@airplane.sharebase.com ShareBase Corp., 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030 (408)378-7000 The opinions expressed above are those of the poster and not his employer.