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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:55:48 -0500
- From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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- Subject: North Carolina Area Code 919 to Split Into 919 and 910
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- David Esan, in the January V&H report, notes:
-
- > Other NPAs that are candidates for a split include eastern North
- > Carolina (714) [sic], Philadelphia (215), and 602 (Arizona).
-
- Someone else recently posted an article describing 215's split into 215
- and 610. Well, we can now add 919 (which is what Dave *meant* to say
- above when describing the crowded area code that covers all of eastern
- and northern North Carolina; 704 covers just the southwestern portion of
- the state) to the list of splitters.
-
- Today's _News_&_Observer_ (Raleigh's daily) announces that a new area
- code 910 will be created out of 919 later this year. The new area will
- encompass the northwestern and north-central areas of the state
- (including the "Triad" area of Greensboro, Winston Salem and High Point),
- and will cut a diagonal corridor through the middle of the state on its
- way to the coast, where it will also pick up the entire southeastern
- portion (including Wilmington and Fayetteville). The 919 code will be
- reduced to the central and northeastern parts of North Carolina,
- starting at Sanford and stretching north and east to include the Resarch
- Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) area all the way to the Outer
- Banks and the eastern part of the Virginia border.
-
- The "permissive dialing" phase (when 910 is first activated, but when
- 919 will still also work for 910 numbers) will begin November 14th of
- this year. The cutover will be complete on February 13, 1994, when 910
- will be required for all numbers in the new area.
-
- The newspaper article notes that "... it is expected that the 910 area
- code will cause some confusion because it is so similar to 919".
- (Incidentally, has any area code split ever used a new code so similar
- to the old one?) Of course, we TELECOM Digest readers know the reason
- for this, and so does the article, which mentions that "... the 910 area
- code was the only one available to North Carolina."
-
- So that's it folks: all the N10 area codes have now been exhausted,
- given that the US government is apparently not going to relinquish its
- secretive 710 code. If there are any other splits within the NANP
- before the NXX era begins next year, they'll have to burn one of the
- N11 or N00 codes.
-
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