The State of New Mexico had been a single area code, 505, ever since the beginnings of the North American Numbering Plan, "officially" effective on Wednesday...
Trying to get the word out that new NPA/NXX 904-325 has not been loaded in all networks. New exchange for wireless carrier, OCN 5562, CLLI JCVLFLSMX1Y,...
Today, Thursday 16-October-2008, the California Public Utilities Commission voted UNANIMOUSLY (5-0) to reverse their previous April 2008 decision (4-1) for a...
On Thu, 10/16/08, Joey Lindstrom <joey at garynuman dot info> ... Well, as I mentioned in my earlier post, there have been at least three relief plans approved...
... OOPS... make that July 2007 (NOT 2008) when the UT-PSC canceled the previously approved dis-contiguous split, approving the 801/385 overlay (for March...
... WELL, now there *IS* a lot of media coverage! Radio/TV/Newspaper websites, etc. AND the Ca.PUC's website now has documentation, see further down... ... The...
The Oregon Public Utilities Commission today (Tuesday 21-Oct-2008) announced the 541/458 area code OVERLAY for the "rest-of" Oregon, for possibly in March...
Neustar-NANPA has uploaded PL-381 (dated Thursday 23-Oct-2008), to their website, regarding the (now to be) 760/442 area code OVERLAY in southern and...
As many of you have probably already read/heard, CenturyTel is to takeover Embarq (United and Centel). Financial/etc. details are available in numerous press...
In Yahoo:SingingWires (TCI), Roger Conklin wrote in reply to my ... What manufacturer did Central Telephone (or was it still called Middle States Telephone?)...
... Thanks for the info on the payphone history in Des Plaines and Park Ridge IL! It's always interesting to know what models of payphones were/are used by...
Thanks, Roger, for the additional details on Park Ridge and Des Plaines IL. I know that there were some exceptions, where WECO did sell equipment to non-Bell...
This was posted to (Townson's) Telecom Digest earlier today (Tuesday 28-Oct-2008). The announcement also appeared in Monday's (27-Oct-2008) New York Times: ...
This is being posted to several groups/lists. This particular topic has been discussed in several lists in the past, but very recently has been discussed in...
Today, Thursday 06-November-2008, the WI-PSC had their regular (monthly? weekly? bi-weekly?) public meeting, and made their decision on relief of the 715 and...
... Since then, MEDIA-related websites (radio/TV/newspaper/etc) have reported this as well. ... Later media reports (found by doing "google news" searches) do ...
Further information below -- [...] ... There now is a press release at the Wisconsin PSC's website, which also indicates the specific overlay codes, mapped to ...
... Well, the characters/structure of the URL, in the way that the WI-PSC created it, might not "hyperlink" in some browsers or mail readers. The main page for...
While 534 is sort of nice, 274 is a beautiful code that makes an impressive NPA. I would feel very proud to have 274 as an area code. Congratulations too,...
The Canadian Numbering Administration (SAIC's CNA) has released some new documents on upcoming relief planning for the 450 NPA in southwestern Quebec (outside...
On Tue, 11/11/08, Ray Chow <czg.lists at gmail.com> replied to ... [...] ... Thanks for the info on this! I also called up the ACTQ (Association des Compagnies...
... If the unique "one-to-one" overlay of 450 with a brand new NPA code is chosen (or in the unlikely case of a split of 450, which is already in mandatory...
The NY-PSC uploaded a document on Wednesday 26 November 2008, of a "Recommended Decision" from a New York State Administrative Law Judge, regarding the relief...
An Embarq (formerly Sprint-United and Sprint-Centel) shareholder is suing Embarq (and CenturyTel) over the proposed merger of Embarq and CenturyTel (or rather...
There is a recent article in the Rutland (Vermont) Herald newspaper regarding the upcoming switch for FairPoint, as it makes its final switch off of VeriZon...
"at&t Southeast", formerly BellSouth, formerly Southern Bell, has an announcement on their "interconnections/technical disclosures" webpages, that the Delray...