Hello All: I am looking for a way to determine the tandem associated with various switches. A LEC can have several switches and some are homed to X tandem and...
Free resources are kind of broad and not really universal. These resources can vary greatly, carrier to carrier and state to state. Can you please narrow what...
Back on Monday 22-May-2006, I had posted about how the one-time "semi" BOC of SNET in Connecticut, Southern New England Telephone, which had been taken over by...
Earlier I wrote the following regarding the legacy SNET-SBC, now part of lowercase at&t, 800-555-5321 Calling Card Platform: (snip) ... I hadn't mentioned in...
The New Mexico PRC, state regulatory, has announced the activation dates for the forthcoming 505/575 Area Code Split. The main page of the 505/575 info webpage...
Yesterday, Monday 18 December 2006, the West Virginia Public Service Commission added another document/order to their website regarding the 304 Area Code, the...
The test number as listed in Neustar-NANPA Planning Letter #357, for the 331 NPA Overlay to NPA 630 in Illinois, western/central Chicago IL suburbs, is...
... BTW, for those who don't know, MSA is a US Census Dept term for "Metropolitan Statistic Area". ... A list of the top 100 MSAs, including "current" rankings...
Neustar-NANPA http://www.nanpa.com issued two new Planning Letters today, Thursday 21-December-2006. PL-358 regarding the forthcoming 505/575 Area Code Split...
There is a press release dated Thursday 21 December 2006 at the Nebraska Public Service Commission's website http://www.psc.state.ne.us regarding the opening...
In the most recent "Telecom Update" #560, dated 21-December-2006, from Canada's Angus Telemanagement, http://www.angustel.ca/update/up560.html ... CRTC OKAYS...
On Thursday 21-December-2006, in reference to the recently issued Neustar-NANPA Planning Letter #358 regarding the 2007/08 New Mexico 505/575 NPA Split, I...
Hi, I'm updating the Wikipedia Area Code 415 page and I've always wondered why the NANPA website says that 415 is the parent area code for 805 while most other...
... Unfortunately, detailed documentation of the area code splits of the 1950s and early 1960s is very "hidden" and obscure. I tend to think that what became...
Hi, Andrew: Area-code 805 was derived from 213, 415, and 916. The present code includes those coastal areas from 213 and 415, while 661 includes inland areas...
Correction: The 805 area also originally included Monterey and San Benito Counties from the 415 area. These (except for Bradley and Parkfield) moved to the 408...
Neustar-NANPA has now posted the 2006 4th-Quarter NANPA Newsletter to their website: http://www.nanpa.com/pdf/newsletters/NANPA_4Q_06.pdf The first page has...
There is up-front mention of the at&t/SBC and BellSouth merger at BellSouth's website. This is on just about every page that comes up at the basic corporate...
... I forgot to mention that the BellSouth PIC Verifies are still branding BellSouth ONLY, without any reference to the "new at&t". i.e., for BellSouth-ILEC...
At the moment I'm typing this -- CORRECTION, STARTING to type this, "The History Channel" on Cable-TV is re-running the "Police Tech" episode of "Modern...
I was forwarded the following Press Release from AT&T, dated today Friday 12-January-2007, regarding the imminent re-branding of Cingular as AT&T, to begin on...
I also am going to be checking the interior and exterior LCD screens on both my New Orleans LA 504-460-based and Lafayette LA 337-852-based Cingular...
Isn't that information burned into the SIM at sign up? I use T-mobile, and some of the locations that either were not active or have changed hands either show...
... snip ... Y'know, I really don't know what Cingular, Motorola, etc. do with GSM phones and SIM-cards, with displaying the wireless provider's name/logo on...
... Keep in mind also that GSM phones, if purchased at a ddep discount through the provider have a SIM lock that won't allow you to change providers After the...
... That was when I took the SIM-card out of MY old and somewhat broken Motorola GSM "egg-shaped" flip-phone, to move that SIM over to my friend's old same...
... I forgot to mention yesterday... it APPEARS that the at&t logo/name has gotten LARGER at the BellSouth website pages, and the logo/name for BellSouth in...
Did any US locations use anything other than 911, of a short-form Emergency code, i.e., a 3-digit or 4-digit special code, before the 911 code became...
... The carrier name displayed by GSM phones is determined by a combination of a list hardwired in the phone (generally used when roaming), instructions on the...
... The carrier names displayed when roaming are usually pulled from a list in the phone. It is possible for a carrier to send an "alpha tag" from its towers;...
