ekrell@ulysses.att.com (12/11/90)
New York Telephone changed its mind and it's now saying that it won't
assign the 917 area code to the Bronx, but instead the Bronx will join
the 718 area code (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island), leaving area 212
for Manhattan only.
The 917 area code will be used for cellular and paging devices. About
20% of the 2.5 million numbers in the 212 area code are used for these
purposes. A task force will study whether to extend the 917 area code
to fax machines and whether such services from the sorrounding 516 and
914 area codes should also be assigned to 917.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.comcmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (12/20/90)
Questions: Are there prefix duplications between the Bronx and the current 718 area (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island)? You have written that about 20% of the 2.5 million numbers in area 212 are used for cellular and paging. How much of that 2.5 million is taken up by the Bronx? When is it proposed to put the Bronx in 718 (which obviously must have the room to add the prefixes used by the Bronx)? And how does that push back the 212/917 split (given the recovery of the prefixes now used in the Bronx)? The change means that the Bronx-Westchester line will become the border between 718 and 914. Putting Bronx in 917 would have put 914 and 917 along that line instead.