cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (02/06/90)
This is from a trip I took recently to Virginia. Pentagon (offices physically in Va. but using area code 202 -- does not apply to pay phones there) appears in extended calling area from these 703-area points: Quantico 640 Triangle-Dumfries 221 Woodbridge-Occoquan 490,491,494,497 Arcola 327 Dale City 590,670,680,878 Independent Hill 791 Haymarket 754 Nokesville 594 Manassas 257,330,335,361,367,368,369 dial SEVEN digits for such calls to the Pentagon? (That's what the call guide said, from Contel.) From Dulles Metro 260 and Lorton Metro 643: "Dial ten digits (area code 703 plus seven digit number) for calls from 260 and 643 to an extended calling area." I assume this reduces to 7 digits sometime after the dust settles from implementing NPA+7D for local calls across DC-area NPA borders. Dulles 661, local to DC but not to Md., has no extended-calling area indicated. [ the above is from Manassas Nov. 1989 directory ] While at Stone Bridge area along U.S. 29 at Fairfax-Prince William county line, I walked a very short distance to pay phones on 703-830 (these are C&P phones on the Braddock exchange) on the Fairfax side. 335-xxxx "cannot be completed as dialed"; 1-703-335-xxxx "requires a 25 cent deposit before dialing", and I assume this can reduce to 7 digits as above. Notice, however, that 830, like 661, is local to DC but not to Md.