cmoore@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB) (02/03/89)
A reader previously wrote of being in a new area code (508 in Massachusetts) and learning that some people in distant areas could not yet call 508 area. This apparently also happens with prefixes. Once in Maryland before 0+number went away, I attempted to dial 0-850-xxxx and it got rejected; 850 was a rather new prefix in the Baltimore-Washington Int'l airport area. And someone else in Maryland could not call 202-994 prefix (long-distance, to DC). (I.e. both calls required help from a human operator.) Was there a similar experience with people on N0X/N1X prefixes? (I.e. some people in distant areas had calls to such prefixes rejected by their local equipment?)