Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl.mil> (01/13/90)
There is an Iowa prefix (Cedar Lake?) right next door to Omaha, Nebraska, which can be reached with 2 area codes: 712 (Iowa) or 402 (Nebraska). Area code 202 goes outside the beltway, too. However, when you get to outer fringes like Herndon (Va.) or Laurel (Md.), you are local to DC but outside of area code 202. Previous articles in Telecom have explained that 202 will be restricted to DC, and that local calls in DC area will become 10 digits when crossing area code boundary, and that the cases of 11-digit local calls (extended-area from Va. suburbs to Prince William, and from Bowie-Glenn Dale "foreign" exchanges to 569 in Severn, Md.) may later be reduced to 7 digits.