VeriZon & Frontier- Pt 2/5: CA/OR/NV/AZ As for WHICH legacy GTE and Contel exchanges in California VeriZon would sell to Frontier and which VZ would retain, it...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 14, 2010 6:56 pm
VeriZon & Frontier- Pt 3/5: WV/MD VeriZon has also indicated that it intends to sell off its landline operations in West Virginia (all BOC exchanges throughout...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 14, 2010 6:58 pm
VeriZon & Frontier- Pt 4/5: WV/MD/VA (more) Further east in the eastern WV panhandle, is another area where the "Hagerstown MD" LATA #240 spills over into West...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 14, 2010 7:00 pm
VeriZon & Frontier- Pt 5/5: Knotts Island NC & Closing FINALLY ... there is the Knotts Island NC ratecenter, legacy Contel, acquired by GTE in the early 1990s...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 16, 2010 6:44 am
I did a bit more digging through my own files, VeriZon's and Frontier's websites, and some more google searches, and have come up with the following additional...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 17, 2010 5:52 pm
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (the Canadian Federal Government39;s telecom/radio/TV/etc. regulatory agency similar ot the US'...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 17, 2010 9:13 pm
... [ ... ] ... The CRTC webpages have since been corrected, now showing the correct "start" date for the new 873 NPA code, (Saturday) 01-June-2013, instead of...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 20, 2010 6:57 am
SUBJECT: Some More re VeriZon's Pending Sale of Most GTE-including-Contel to Frontier On Thursday 18-February-2010, the Arizona Corporation Commission gave its...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 20, 2010 5:48 pm
NPA 343 Overlay to 613 in so/east Ontario (Canada) Test-Numbers On 17-May-2010, the 613 area code in southeastern Ontario (including Ottawa ON and the...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 20, 2010 6:18 pm
I forgot to include the CLLIs and switch-equipment info! The ratecenters are all Ottawa ON, although the Rogers-CallNet CLLI is realy a POI/POP...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 21, 2010 3:14 am
... Make that THREE-and-a-half-years-ago! ... In Fall 2006, several area codes in Ontario and Quebec introduced mandatory ten-digit "home" area code local...
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Michel Brunet
michelbrunet007
Feb 22, 2010 5:38 am
Side note, area code 438 was released as an overlay code for Montreal's 514. (Don't quote me ~ 2006-7) While prior to 2006, Hull/ Gatineau, Qc (819) and 613...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Feb 27, 2010 12:36 am
Today, Friday 26-February-2010, the Oregon Public Utilities Commission became the 6th state of the nine states total which are required for approval, to vote...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 3, 2010 9:44 pm
The other day, I'd heard that Sint Maarten's incorporation into the NANP might be delayed somewhat. The permissive dialing was to have been on 31-May-2010,...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 4, 2010 2:18 am
... The new Planning Letter #404 has been added to NANPA's website. It simply states the following: "The Regulatory Authority of the Government of St. Maarten,...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 7, 2010 1:13 am
The 470 area code for the Atlanta Metro area, overlaying 404/770/678, was first officially considered "active/effective" back in September 2001. However, the...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 9, 2010 9:06 pm
From the Decatur IL "Herald Review", dated today, Tuesday 09-March-2010: "Judge blocks Verizon land line sale to Frontier" ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 9, 2010 9:31 pm
Correcting a typo: [ ... ] ... That should be CHRONOLOGICAL, not "chorological"! :-) It's About TIME! (Not music/singing nor an organized dance! :-) [ ... ] ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 12, 2010 2:41 am
Yet ANOTHER 1AESS Being Replaced with a Digital Packet Remote About a month ago, I had posted about two WECO/Lucent/Alcatel 1AESS switches that are being...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Mar 12, 2010 3:32 am
VeriZon/Bell-Atlantic/C&P ELIMINATING Pentagon 5ESS PNTGVADFDS0 I took a look at VeriZon's regulatory/network/tariff/etc. section of their website to see if...
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elmercat
Mar 13, 2010 9:40 pm
Regardless of what you think of the rest of the video, you've got to get a kick out of the use of some classic old phones in the video "Telephone". (Though,...
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Ray
czg7777
Mar 16, 2010 2:09 am
Today, NANPA issued a notice regarding rate center consolidations in Nebraska, NPA 308, effective 15 June 2010. The HYANNIS, ARTHUR, ASHBY, BINGHAM and WHITMAN...
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elmercat
Mar 20, 2010 7:26 pm
Here's a new video of Jane Barbe performing a medley of her classic announcements in a mash-up with (but, of course) Madonna's "Time": ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Apr 1, 2010 12:57 pm
... [ ... ] ... I recently discovered that VeriZon/BA/C&P had posted another notice (also dated Thursday 11-March-2010) at their...
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Ray
czg7777
Apr 1, 2010 1:42 pm
By: Howard Solomon On: 31 Mar 2010 For: Network World Canada It isn't often a member of a CRTC panel issues a dissent. But a decision to deregulate the way...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Apr 2, 2010 10:00 pm
In the opening scenes of a "Bewitched" (color) episode, "Three Wishes", which originally aired in the US on the ABC Television Network on Thursday...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Apr 11, 2010 3:03 am
Last night, Friday 09-April-2010, NeuStar-NANPA issued its 1Q-2010 Newsletter, uploading to the NANPA website: ...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Apr 11, 2010 6:12 am
SUBJECT: 800-N02s/N12s Since 15-Feb-2008 Have Now Been Available for REGULAR Toll-Free Numbers! In my previous post about toll-free SAC 855 and the history of...
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Mark J. Cuccia
markjcuccia
Apr 11, 2010 5:16 pm
... There was never anything "special" about the eight 800-N00 office codes. They have been around MUCH longer than just "several years", having been assigned...
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Ray
czg7777
Apr 13, 2010 3:53 pm
CRTC decision: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-213.htm In this decision, the Commission determines that relief for area codes 289 and 905 is to be...