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- From: STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU (Stan Horwitz)
- Newsgroups: pa.general
- Subject: Re: AC 215/610 Split
- Message-ID: <16B4EDEA7.STAN@VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 20:49:42 GMT
- References: <1076@pacs.pha.pa.us> <1993Jan6.051317.29581@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan6.051317.29581@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- wisdom@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Robert Wisdom) writes:
-
- >
- >John P. Dearing (jdearin@pacs.pha.pa.us) wrote:
- >: In article <C0D5zF.EBn@olwejo.UUCP>, bob@olwejo.UUCP (Bob Kupiec) writes:
- >: > I just heard on the news today that Bell of Pennsylvania will announce an
- >: > Area Code split in AC 215.
- >
- >: Actually, *ALL* of Philadelphia will remain in 215, along with almost
- >: all of Bucks and about half of Montgomery Counties. Everything else will
- >: go to the new 610 area code.
- >
- >: One thing to note, There will not be any changes in charges for calls.
- >: That is, anything that is currently a local call will continue to be a
- >: local call, even if you have to dial 10 digits to complete the call.
- >
- > Are you sure about this? I can't see Bell of Pa being so nice for
- >more than a couple of years. Is there something that the PUC has in
- >writing saying Bell of PA may not charge between 215 and 610, or are they
- >just "promising"?
-
- According to the news reports on KYW this morning, no additional phone
- charges will be leveid when calling between 610 and 215. This seems
- reasonable since other regions of the country have had similar area code
- rearangements and I haven't heard of any of those folks affected by those
- changes being asked to shell out more bucks to call phones that were once
- in the same area code.
-