It was 25 years ago today, on Saturday 06-November-1982, that the 714/619 California NPA Split took effect, with permissive dialing of the new 619 NPA. Three...
The Kentucky PSC has postponed the 270/364 area code split yet again. The 270 area code in western KY is to be split, with the western side (far western KY),...
Last year, in Fall 2006, several area codes in eastern (Bell) Canada, Quebec and Ontario, went into mandatory ten-digit intra-home-NPA local dialing: 519 in...
... The CRTC has never required the original NPA to be filled. When 289 overlaid 905, there were quite a few 289-NXXes pre-assigned prior to its activation,...
... And now there's even INTER-MODAL portability in many parts of Canada, similar to what has exised in the US for several years now. There are some exceptions...
Earlier this year, in January 2007, VeriZon announced that it intends to completely exit the northermost, mostly rural, New England states of Maine, New...
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Murray Hooper
m-hooper@...
Dec 5, 2007 8:38 pm
When a new NPANXX is put into service is there a standard timeframe when all the LECs have to acknowledge these numbers? Ie if my company gets 212555 block,...
... When a service provider requests a new NPA-NXX c.o.code from Neustar-NANPA (if the code is for a US point) or from SAIC-CNA (if the code is for a Canadian...
Telus has recently delivered it's most recent "poison-pill". This concerns wireline subscribers. If you do not have a wireline long-distance plan with Telus...
I made the similar complaint to CRTC sometime ago and a paragraph of their replied is included herewith for reference "Unfortunately, this matter (CCTS #01490)...
PIC = Predesignated Interexchange Carrier Suppose you decide to have your long-distance service with Acme instead of Telus. Acme sends a PIC request to Telus....
There is a neighberhood segment that has been geographically part of the borough/county of The Bronx since 1914, but is still politically/ jurisdictionally a...
The small town of Reeves LA in extreme southwest LA, has had the '666' c.o.code for many decades now, originally as 318-666, changed to 337-666 back in...
The local news/press/media in the Ottawa ON Metro area now has more reports of the forthcoming 613/34 NPA Overlay for southeastern Ontario. I found these new...
http://www.kmtsonline.com/kmts-sale-to-bell-aliant/kmts-sale-final.pdf Page 1 News Release January 16, 2008 City of Kenora unanimously approves Bell Aliant...
... (snip) A few years back, the cities of Kenora ON to the east, and Keewatin ON to the west were amalgamated into a larger City of Kenora. Prior to...
... <markjcuccia@...> wrote: (snip) ... It seems that TBayTel (aka Thunder Bay Telephone) also wanted to buy KMTS but their offer came up short. They even...
This is not all that unusual, and multiple much-larger examples exist throughout Ontario. Mississauga is probably the oldest - the city is served by four or...
I'm not sure if the second half of your statement about the CRTC requirement is correct. There are many places in BC where the surrounding areas can call the...
Today, Tuesday 29-January-2008, the WV Public Service Commission finally voted for approving some form of area code relief for the state's existing 304 area...
This is "preaching to the choir" for at least MOST of us here (I do know that there are a few "split-happy" people here though), but here is an article/opinion...
This reply posted to Telnum AND both Yahoo Groups (Local Calling Guide and Central Office)..... ... Not specifically... I had mostly forgotten about you since...
... You raise some interesting points on Geography in that if Free calling was implemented through out a country we would just keep the same number no matter...
Doing "news" searches with Google, I've come across additional media reports about some backlash aginst the WV-PSC's 2-1 decision to split the 304 NPA... while...
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WE202C3F@...
Feb 3, 2008 1:01 am
Mark, BellSouth split northern Georgia's 404 into 404 and 706 on 5/31/92. Some communities such as Gainesville successfully petitioned the PSC to change...
... Wow, bad attitude to have. And here's why... CLECs are not the only ones who have numbers placed into overlay codes. Many cell phones and - yes - even...
... That document is really IL-95-06-008, not PL 95-06. ... And the Ga-PSC decision to change the 404/706 split boundary in mid-steam was a nightmare! ... ...
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WE202C3F@...
Feb 3, 2008 2:33 am
My point is that mandatory 10-digit dialing here was a result of two things: the split of Atlanta into 2 NPAs instead of 4 and the US FCC requirement that...
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WE202C3F@...
Feb 3, 2008 2:51 am
A 3-way split was allowed for 912, though at a much later date. If the forecasts were done properly, then asking for more than one additional NPA (770) would...
