dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) (09/06/90)
Ken Jongsma wrote in volume 10, issue 621: | This week's issue of {Communications Week} as an interesting blurb | entitled "Area Codes Near Exhaustion." In addition to mentioning the | forthcoming 917 code assigned to New York City, they mention that US | West "is studying the possibility of restructuring dialing patterns | so that additional prefixes become available." [in Washington state] | Good grief! Well, let's see. That could mean just about anything now, | couldn't it? Probably not. Very likely it means allowing N0X and N1X prefixes, no doubt only in area code 206 for now (and 509 some day). However, there may be border areas in 509 that can dial part way into 206 without an area code now, and their dialing patterns would be changed as well, especially if an N0X or N1X prefix is assigned in the nearby part of 206. | Also from this week's {Communications Week}: | As of July, 794 out of 999 CICs ("exchanges") have been assigned | for 800 numbers to 141 carriers. | 286 CICs have been assigned for 900 numbers to 77 "providers." Out of 999? Does that mean that prefixes for 800 numbers can be of the form XXX? I have yet to see N0X or N1X (though I have seen N0X prefixes for 900 numbers)! If the prefixes of 800 numbers must be NXX, there can be eight hundred maximum, and we're already at 794. We may not make it to 1995 without NXX area codes. David Tamkin Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 708 518 6769 312 693 0591 MCI Mail: 426-1818 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com