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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:11 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: 313 Split Not Being Well Publicized
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- hpa@merle.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
-
- >> Permissive dialing
- >> starts December 1993, and ends (with mandatory use of 810) August 10,
- >> 1994.
-
- > That's a long permissive dialing period.
-
- Hah! Got than one beat by a country mile. Somewhere back in 1959 or
- 1960, 408 was split off from 415. I happened to notice this because of
- my practice of reading the phone book for fun (makes great "library"
- reading, if you know what I mean). Anyway, callers from out of state
- could use 415 or 408 for south bay numbers interchangably for several
- years.
-
- But here is the best part. It was possible to omit the area code if
- you happened to be calling within the metro Bay Area, even if your
- call crossed area code boundaries until 1982. In other words, up until
- eleven years ago, San Francisco was a seven digit call from San
- Jose -- even though the NPA had been split more than TWENTY YEARS
- previously!
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
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