JAJZ801@calstate.bitnet (11/14/90)
PacBell and GTE just announced a proposal to split the current 714 area code (Orange, Riverside, and San Bernadino counties) in two, taking effect in January 1993. Boundaries are not firm (hearings will be held) but it is expected that Orange County (Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, and many other attractions) will stay in the 714 code and the remaining counties will receive a new one. The newspaper article doesn't mention it but a TV report specified 909 and the area code list in the archives shows that as unassigned. The reason given was the proliferation of phone numbers (as with the 213-310 split for Los Angeles). This was probably exacerbated by growth rates of Riverside and San Bernadino (due to housing costs elsewhere) and the proliferation of cellular phones and faxes and modems in Orange County, which is a relatively affluent area. Jeff Sicherman
cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (11/17/90)
So, from the present 714 area (post 714/619 split), Orange County points will probably stay in 714, and those in San Bernardino and Riverside counties will go into 909? That means 714 is being restricted even more to the far eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. 714 at the time of 714/619 split had no N0X/N1X prefixes; are there still none in the present 714 and 619 areas? Apparently, Anaheim and Santa Ana would stay in 714? (Yes, I know Disneyland is in Anaheim, although Disney World in Florida went into 407 at the time of the 305/407 split there.)