cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (08/15/89)
I have seen 2 recent cases where area code 202 was used in front of a Maryland number which has metro DC-area service but is beyond area 202 (they are only in area 301). In one case, 202-621 was displayed on the back of a panel truck. In the other case, 202-261 was displayed in a fast-food restaurant in an employment ad. Both cases had other phone numbers displayed; the ones I singled out were provided for callers from the Washington area. I have seen 621, which is in Laurel, used for this purpose by a few businesses in the Baltimore area. Before DC-area prefixes were changed from NNX to NXX form, long-distance dialing from 261 and 621 was 1+7D within Md., and 1+NPA+7D elsewhere. (But in Virginia, from 703-860, in Herndon and local to DC but toll to Md., you dialed NPA+7D for all long distance, and Herndon metro-area prefixes 471 and 620 appear on phone bills as VIENNA and are in area code 202, not just 703.)
johnk@uunet.uu.net (John Kennedy) (08/15/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0296m04@vector.dallas.tx.us> cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 296, message 4 of 8 >I have seen 2 recent cases where area code 202 was used in front of a Maryland >number which has metro DC-area service but is beyond area 202 (they are only >in area 301). In one case, 202-621 was displayed on the back of a panel >truck. In the other case, 202-261 was displayed in a fast-food restaurant in >an employment ad. It's my understanding that that's supposed to work, since the numbers in the metro DC area are "local" to one another, even though they may be in area codes 202, 703 or 301. Now, not all of the exchanges in 703 and 301 are local calls in the DC area, but the ones that are local are dialable with the 202 area code. For example, my home phone exchange is 858. It's in distant Maryland, but is one of the exchanges with the privelege of being local to DC and is dialable (from outside the area) with a 202 area code. Likewise, phones in Northern Virginia (703 are code) are also dialable with 202. The US-gov't FTS service didn't used to support 703 or 301 for the DC suburbs. You always dialed 202. John Kennedy johnk@opel.UUCP Second Source, Inc. Annapolis, MD