In early February 2009, I had posted information on a cutover from a 1AESS to a 5ESS in at&t/BellSouth territory of Delray FL, to take effect later in the year...
The Dominican Republic has been part of the NANP for decades. AT&T had assigned 809 to serve the Caribbean region way back in 1958, although it would be some...
... According to this page at the INDOTEL website, http://www.indotel.gob.do/temporales/temporales/portabilidad-numerica-2009.html as of 31 December 2008 there...
As mentioned in several previous posts recently, and in past months, there seem to be only about 70 remaining WECO 1AESS offices in the US, mostly in: -...
... Power consumption and certain spares are real problems, but at the rate some are losing lines it doesn't make economic sense to do anything but keep them...
There are some new NPA-specific webpages and documents at the Canadian Numbering Administator's (CNA's) website, regarding area code relief planning for...
On Sat, 4/4/09, I wrote: [...] ... NANPA has since uploaded a "corrected" version of the Planning Letter to the same URL. The previous one stated as follows: ...
Back on Monday 02-March-2009, I had posted about the c.o.codes still unassigned (yet available for assignment as opposed to those flagged as NOT assignable) in...
About a week ago, NANPA revised PL-387 regarding the forthcoming Dominican Republic 809/829/849 NPA overlay... the PL is now known as PL-387R1. It still...
While looking through the NY-PSC website last week, to see if there are any recent documents on an upcoming decision regarding the relief if the 315 area code...
The ITU has uploaded its most recent edition of their E.164 list of assigned telephone country codes, dated 15-April-2009, an Annex to the ITU Operational...
Earlier I wrote: [ ... ] ... I looked through even earlier editions of the ITU E.164 Telephone Country Code List ... the 15-October-2006 edition does...
On Tuesday 28-April-2009, Neustar-NANPA issued Planning Letter #389, http://www.nanpa.com/pdf/PL_389.pdf regarding the 256/938 area code overlay in northern...
The CRTC (Canada's version of the US' FCC) has approved an overlay expansion of the existing 438 area code (which since 2006/07 has overlaid the 514 area code...
On Thursday 23 April 2009, in "Dominican Republic Test Number WILL Be 849-222-9999", I wrote: [ ... ] ... [ ... (see original text transferred further below) ]...
Windstream will be buying the Denver & Ephrata Telephone & Telegraph Company in southeastern Pennsylvania. News items from D&E's and Windstream's websites....
For those who are NOT on the TCI/Yahoo:SingingWires group, you may or may not yet have heard in the news on Wednesday 13-May-2009, that VeriZon and Frontier...
... that are distant from > Toronto, such as Hamilton and the Niagara Peninsula. Very true, though there are exceptions. When refusing to the music ...
... There are several reasons for this. As noted, most GTA cell phone users have 416/647 numbers to take advantage of wider local calling areas, so there are...
... First of all I'd like to know who the "new" cellphone companies are. To my knowledge you still have the major players i.e. ROGERS, Bell Mobility and Telus...
... NO! Canada does NOT do 1K-block assignments. The CRTC and Canadian telco industry never did implement this. ONLY the US does this (within the NANP), and...
The KY-PSC has yet again postponed the Kentucky 270/364 area code split in western Kentucky. Back in May 2007 (two years ago), the KY-PSC indicated that this ...
Well, this IS KY. Even the much maligned WV has come to their senses, but after all they DID re-elect Mitch McConnell. Lets all hope the FCC will step up and...
... nor was I asked, neither... At least in Canada, the only regulatory authority regarding area code relief is on the national level, the CRTC. The Provinces...
On Wednesday 03-June-2009, the new name for the merged CenturyTel and Embarq (old Sprint United and Centel) ILECs was announced: CenturyLink. All of the state...
Three weeks ago, on Thursday 04-June-2009, in "CenturyTel plus Embarq (Sprint's United & Centel) becomes: CenturyLink" I had posted that the day before, on...
The Nebraska Public Service Commission announced today (Wednesday 08-July-2009) that the 402 area code in eastern Nebraska will be OVERLAID with the new 531...