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- From: fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Fybush)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Dialing Changes in New England Tel Land
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:51:38 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 852, Message 1 of 14
-
- New England Tel is getting ready for the introduction of NNX-style
- NPAs in a few years. This morning's papers announce that the end of
- 1-NNX-XXXX dialing for long distance within area code is imminent.
- NETel is replacing it with NNX-XXXX, which IMHO is a mistake, since
- there are some rather expensive calls that can be made within NPAs
- here, and the telecom-illiterate will have no easy way of knowing
- whether the NXX-XXXX they're about to dial is around the corner or 100
- miles away. I would have preferred 1-NPA-NXX-XXXX, but I'll have to
- live with what they've chosen (and for me in 617 there are only about
- a dozen NXX's that will change anyway).
-
- The announced phase-in dates are:
-
- February 1993: Westfield, Russell, and Monson MA (413-562, 568, 572;
- 413-862; and 413-267).
-
- by December 1993: all of 413, 401, 603, and 802.
-
- by 1994: all of 207, 508, and 617.
-
- Accompanying this change in 508 will be a revision of dialing
- procedures for local calls which cross state lines. Consumers now
- dial just seven digits; henceforth they'll dial 1-603 or 1-401, as the
- case may be. Presently calls dialed with 1-603 or 1-401 are carried
- by an IXC and billed at toll rates; presumably NET will intercept
- those calls in the switch and carry them themselves. Anyone really
- wanting to pay toll rates will presumably be able to dial 10XXX first.
-
- No word on whether calls in the other direction will have to use
- 1-508, or whether seven digits will continue to be used.
-
- BTW, all the local media did a good job reporting the story
- accurately, noting the way the change will make 640 new NPAs
- available, and even mentioning that New England Tel will be able to
- add new NXX-style exchanges (although it obviously was not phrased
- that way). If anyone heard the version of the story that aired on WBZ
- radio Friday morning 11/13, I'd welcome comments ... I wrote it and
- tried to make it both telecom-accurate and accessible to the
- non-telecom listener. I hope it worked :-)
-
-
- Scott Fybush -- fybush@unixland.natick.ma.us
- These are not the opinions of WBZ radio or Group W.
-