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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: DC area (was: NPA Dialing Procedure Changes)
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Date: 16 Aug 89 15:56:36 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 303, message 12 of 12

Fred G. Monti writes
>Not announced:  what will happen to the (relatively few) cases where local
>and extended area calls within an NPA are currently dialed with 1 + 10 digits
>due to code duplication.  They'll probably be reduced to 7 digits.
I don't know what this refers to.  From Maryland prefixes 621,261,858 you
currently dial 1-301-569-xxxx (NOT a toll call) to reach 569 prefix in Severn,
because 569-xxxx reaches 569 prefix in Springfield, Va.; that local call to
Severn was 1-569-xxxx until the DC area got N0X/N1X prefixes.  I guess it'll
take a while to reduce that local call to Severn to 7 digits, because you don't
want people reaching Severn where Springfield was intended.  That's the only DC-
area case I know of where more than 7 digits are currently needed on a local
call.

Your announcement of 1 Oct. 1990 is the first time I have heard a date for
that change.  I previously asked in this Digest:  Does that mean that Md.
& Va. suburbs are being removed from area code 202?
(I know there are points elsewhere in Md. where local calls to another area
are available by dialing 7D only.  I am not as familiar with area 703 in this
regard.)