Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: DC area (was: NPA Dialing Procedure Changes) Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 15:56:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us 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.)