Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Area Code 510 Press Release From Pac*Bell Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 14:27:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 8 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 406, message 7 of 12 Other messages to telecom digest asked about 909 and 917; it had just been announced that 903 would be created in 1991(?) by splitting 214 in Texas. The reasons suggested for not using 909 and 917 were: 1. 909 looks too much like 707. 2. What is to be area 510 is next door to 916. (Telecom Moderator: You forgot about 903 coming into use in Texas; it was in the splits list I sent.)