cmoore@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB) (11/10/88)
I have read the digest item mentioning upcoming 312/708 split. In other words (correct me if it was wrong or taken wrong), 312 will cover only the Chicago city exchanges when the split is done, right? I take it Chicago is big enough to distinguish between city & suburban prefixes, as is the case here on East Coast in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In smaller cities, like Wilmington, Del., even the "downtown" prefixes can be found in suburbs. By the way, I had that "sequence call" experience while placing calls from a phone in Westchester County, NY. I believe I tried to dial an intra-LATA call from there, then tried a call to Delaware, NOT allowed in that sequence, because I was then on the New York Telephone carrier.