slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades) (11/15/90)
The folks at GTE and Pac*Bell held a press conference yesterday
announcing that they will be splitting area-code 714, which serves
Orange County in Southern California.
The new area-code will be 909 (gasp!). They will be holding public
hearings as to how the area will be split. Several plans are in the
offering:
1.) Have Pac*Bell's area retain 714 while GTE gets 909.
2.) Orange County retains 714 while the bordering counties, some of which
are in 714, get the new 909.
3.) Have all new phone numbers issued after Jan. 1993 get the
new area-code. (I never heard of this before.)
Pac*Bell claims that the proliferation of cellular phones and pagers
are causing them to run out of numbers in 714 sooner than expected.
This will be the second time 714 was split. The first was several
years ago when San Diego and the desert areas broke away to form 619.
The new area code will be effective in Jan of 1993.
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[Moderator's Note: And 619 is *hardly* an over-populated area code.
You'd think they could have shoved the boundaries around on that one a
little and recovered quite a bit of territory. Currently Telenet uses
909 as the 'area code' for their administrative lines in Virginia. I
guess they will change it to something else starting in a couple
years. PAT]wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig) (11/17/90)
In article <14716@accuvax.nwu.edu> slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades) writes: >2.) Orange County retains 714 while the bordering counties, some of which > are in 714, get the new 909. Most likely. >3.) Have all new phone numbers issued after Jan. 1993 get the > new area-code. (I never heard of this before.) I like it but think how DA would work. How many stupid people would not dial an area code ... wouldn't local calls have to go to ten digit dialing? I dont think it will work ... I wish the phone companies would just go to eight digit local numbers and a diferent area code setup. (They could tell the difference between new numbers and old numbers by the length of them.) >little and recovered quite a bit of territory. Currently Telenet uses >909 as the 'area code' for their administrative lines in Virginia. I >guess they will change it to something else starting in a couple >years. PAT] PAT - You mean SprintNet ;-) ... Sprint net has not changed the PAD address in the 407 area yet (at least Melbourne, FL) so i doubt they would change any addresses. It seems as though they will keep the old area code boundaries. Bill Moderator's Note: They've done the same thing here. The places now in 708 are still addressed as 312 on SprintNet. My local dial-in is now a 708 number in Glencoe, IL, but when on line, doing a @STAT returns an answer of 312 something. PAT]