cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (10/31/90)
Area code 301: 996 (formerly serving area near Stewartstown, Pa.?) is now at Elkton. This puts it two exchanges away from Newport, Delaware, which includes 302-996; but Elkton has no local service to Delaware, even though Delaware is right next door. Also, I just got a look at the new (Oct. 1990) Northeastern Maryland call guide (Harford County edition), and find these prefixes I had not seen before: 307 Towson; 316 Cockeysville, 569; Edgewood. Comments: Towson and Cockeysville are NORTHERN suburbs of Baltimore (notice the N0X/N1X prefixes above); I know of no N0X/N1X prefixes in Virginia beyond the DC calling area, and I am sure Maryland has shorter supply of phone numbers than does area 703, which includes Va. suburbs of DC. 569 is Edgewood (verified by checking with AT&T operator and by dialing 569-xxxx from pay phone and having it treated as local call); thus 569 has vanished from Severn. 569 at Severn was a local call from 621,261,etc., but had to be dialed 1-301-569-xxxx from those places because of 569 also being used at Springfield, Va. (703 area); what becomes of subscribers who were on 301-569 at Severn?