On Sunday 29 July 2007, I posted something about the 206 / 509 area code split in Washington state in early 1957. I had found some text from google searches...
From digging thru old newspaper articles found from "google" searches I've found some additional 1950s-era information on the development of Direct Distance...
I have sad news of yet another death, that of "Joybubbles", born Joe Engressia. "Joybubbles" wasn't just a "handle", but rather what he legally changed his...
The CRTC has approved the CNA/Industry recommended/proposed 418/581 NPA Overlay for eastern Quebec, and along the requested/recommended timetable! The Canadian...
SUMMARY of RECENT AREA CODE ANNOUNCEMENTS and ACTIVITY NOTE... THIS IS A LONG POST! If you want to reply, and you like to "top post" your replies, PLEASE ...
I don't know when Qwest-LEC/US-WEST/Mountain-Bell, ENMR-Plateau, or Windstream/Valor (formerly GTE, but NOT Contel) turned up their test-number, respectively...
I successfully made calls to all three test numbers at 10pm pacific time here in San Francisco on my AT&T cell phone. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus29aug29,0,2466396,full.column?coll=la-home-center This is another milestone of sorts. Those of us who are around...
Hi, all: The Nevada number is (775) 844 1212 in Reno. AT&T's excuse is that Reno's machine is newer, and the Los Angeles and San Jose machines are 'worn out'....
WEST VIRGINIA: The current 304-NXX c.o.code information from Neustar-NANPA's website indicates that there are only 26 possible 304-NXX c.o.codes available for...
... Relief for 707 in coastal northern California was originally approved by the Ca.PUC in 1999 or 2000, to take effect during 2001, IIRC... but subsequently...
In the Yahoo: Central Office Group, Nathaniel D. Watson, ... (two brief paragraphs snipped) I wonder if the print or online subscription version of the WSJ had...
Hi Folks Looking at an NPA map it appears that NPA's do not cross state boundaries, but I do not know if that is a rule, or even true. Thanks [Non-text...
Murray Hooper
m-hooper@...
Sep 6, 2007 6:34 pm
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... In the US, NPAs are NOT supposed to cross state boundaries. However, are situations, especially in rural areas, where a small town or settlement that...
... I'm not familiar with that, but I do know that a CO can serve two different area codes in two different states e.g. Kitteery, Maine and Portsmouth, New...
I personally know of some "border exchanges" along the Florida border, and know the history behind them. The NANP rule was no NPA was to cross a state line....
... (snip) ... There have also been "new" examples of "crossborder" central offices, where a central office switch in one state/NPA serves customers in two (or...
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has been granted further authority from the FCC, and has ordered an expansion of "thousands- block" pooling to virtually...
I know that this post is a bit off topic but please indulge me. Does anyone have any knowledge of an announcements by Bell Canada reagrding migrating their...
At the moment, I haven't yet come across anything official at the California PUC website, but the "Orange County Register" newspaper's website is stating that...
I've had a hard time locating a CLEC that would set up a remote call forwarding account for me in area code 315 (Syracuse, New York). Can any of you recommend...
On Thursday 20-September-2007, the California PUC announced the 714/657 NPA overlay to be reinstated. This overlay was ORIGINALLY announced back in 1999, to...
I have some questions about "paths" (as ATT calls them in its California tariffs) for remote-call-forwarding numbers and how they differ from "paths" for...
Number portability these days is NOT the same as most varieties of "Call Forwarding". Ported Numbers involve database lookups and routing instructions on what...
Thanks for your reply. Does this mean that the phone number in my example (in my original posting, reprinted way below) likely would or would not have its ...
... I don't know about regulatory matters in this. But with the way that "POTS" number portability (both landline and wireless) is handled today, and I am...
Excellent. Now I get it. A few minutes ago, I made five simultaneous test calls to a friend's number that had been ported from being an ATT RCF number to a...
I found the following at the at&t "LEC" website of documents, the new "at&t" version of the old BellSouth Carrier Notifications/Network Disclosures .... ...
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