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...
The at&t/BellSouth New Orleans "Aurora" c.o.switch, NWORLAARCG0, a WECO/Lucent/Alcatel #1AESS, is to be replaced with a digital switch, effective Friday...
The 760 Area Code in eastern and southeastern California was to have been split last year, with the new 442 area code assigned to the suburbs in San Diego...
Back on Thursday 07-May-2009, I posted the following in ... ... [ ... ] Bell Canada and Bell Mobility seemed to be the only (major) carriers at the time which...
There is a new post in TD (Townson's Digest) regarding Vonage not being consistent in honoring *67/1167 to indicate to the far-end central office to suppress...
This is not surprising. Many carriers utilizing "in-between" access carriers need to take a second look at their contracts. Language negotiated within those...
NeuStar-NANPA has assigned the first (POTS) 872-NXX c.o.code for Chicago, as part of the 872 NPA Overlay to both NPA 312 in "The Loop" and NPA 773 for "the...
On Friday 07-November-2009, ... (Assigned on Friday 07-November-2009) [ ... ] ... [ ... ] ... NeuStar-NANPA has issued a new Planning Letter TODAY, Monday...
... NPA-NXX c.o.code translations. Some of the smaller LD-carriers might ... Since last month, I am NOW able to reach the two VZ/GTE test-numbers via VZ-B/MCI...
... Well, AT&T-LL (0288) waited until early this Friday morning 21-Aug-2009 to open up the three 442-NXX c.o.codes for the NPA 442 test-numbers, today being...
NeuStar-NANPA has uploaded Planning Letter #395 dated today Wednesday 26-August-2009 to the NANPA website, regarding the 579 area code overlay to the existing...
Several media websites (radio/TV/newspaper/etc) which can be found doing a google "news" search are reporting today (Thursday 10-September-2009) that...
On Monday 28-September-2009, at&t/SNET activated the announcement for the 475-288-0288 test-number for Connecticut's new 475 area code overlay to the existing...
The 500 Special Area Code was started about 15 years ago, when Bellcore-NANPA at the guidance of the telco industry thru the ATIS/ICCF/INC committees and the...
... And now a similar (though very much different actualized) service first from Grand Central and then bought by Google dubbed "Google Voice" makes it...
As if there weren't already enough reasons to dislike Verizon... .... from the Boston Herald: "Preservationists are outraged that a 1940s-era mural has been...
... Believe me, Verizon isn't the only company that tries to bury its past. Since Chase took over WAMU they've made it their mission to obliterate anything...
NOTE: My reply is also being added to two other Yahoo telecom-related groups: Singingwires, Coldwarcomms -- there might be others on those two groups who will...
NANPA has issued Planning Letter 396 regarding the admission of Sint Maarten to the NANP. http://www.nanpa.com/pdf/PL_396.pdf Sint Maarten, an island territory...
... Editing goof: The Netherlands Antilles voted to dissolve itself effective December 2008, but this has been postponed until 10 October 2010. Sint Maarten...
The CRTC (Canada's version of the FCC) approved an overlay of the 705 area code in eastern and northeastern Ontario, the new area code to be 249, in Telecom...
Hey there, I'm new to this board and hope this is not a rookie question. I'm looking for a database that correlates NPA-NXX pairs with the LAT and LON of the...
Ray, thanks so much for this information...this is killer. I now have another question....is there any way to tell if the exchange and or switch is for a...
local calling guide dues it, you have to take several steps, but it does get you to a map using "map it". Once at the map, the lat and lon is displayed in...
... I have a field in the database that indicates whether the carrier is wireless, ILEC or CLEC, but since this is something I've derived myself (i.e., not...
... NANPA planning letter 398 (http://www.nanpa.com/pdf/PL_398.pdf) gives the rate centres. Ontera will indeed provide a test/bill-number pair. 249-510-8378...
... Hmmmm.... I hadn't noticed the typo (and it's CNA's not NANPA's), regarding the (MTS) Allstream 249-810 test/bill number pair, to be based out of Sudbury,...