[comp.dcom.telecom] 1+302 on calls from Pa. to Del.

cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) (07/22/89)

I talked to my local business office today and hear that 1+302
is now required on local calls from Pennsylvania to Delaware
(apparently not the other way around, because my own local service
includes 2 Pa. prefixes and I have received no instruction changes).
What prompted this was my recent notice of prefixes 427 and 886
(both Wilmington, as I hear from business office) in recent ads,
and my observation that they duplicate prefixes in metro Phila.
(Phila. and Jenkintown respectively).  Previously, such local calls
were 7 digits, and when you were in Chester Heights exchange (358
and 459 in area 215), you had 7 digit calling to Phila. & suburbs,
plus West Chester and Wilmington.