Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cantor@proxy.enet.dec.com (David A. Cantor 24-Sep-1989 2042) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T's Prior Use of Fake Area Code 311 Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 00:49:45 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 14 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 404, message 3 of 10 In TELECOM Digest, Vol 9, Issue 395, in article from Linc Madison (rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu), entitled "Area Code 510 Press Release From Pac*Bell," moderator Patrick Townson writes > [Moderator's Note: [...] Does anyone remember when AT&T used to > advertise their DDD service in its early days by showing a telephone > with the number 310-555-2368 on the dial? PT] AT&T used to advertise this number as 311-555-2368, not 310. Before that, they used Area 311, KLondike 5-2368. I have a clear memory of an advertisement I saw with an old style (type 300?) telephone with the number MAin 0-2368 displayed on the dial's circular number plate. Dave C.