I had reported in previous posts back in October (and maybe November) that Qwest-LD (101-0432+) and Vartec (101-0811+ and several other carrier access codes),...
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Raymond Burke
c_o_historian
Dec 7, 2004 2:48 am
I can remember dialling into various countries in the early 1990's, and exploring the telephone systems at the time. During 1991, I can remember calling a...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Dec 6, 2004 10:54 pm
Over the past few days, several sources (including Ian Angus' Telemanagement Canada, as posted this Monday in Telecom Digest), have stated that VeriZon has...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 28, 2004 3:10 am
Last year, 2003, was the 30th anniversary of the 703/804 NPA Split in Virginia, where 703 was retained by "most" of Virginia, and the southeastern part...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 23, 2004 5:36 am
I just called up an AT&T '00' Operator to inquire about the *SPECIFIC* (full tariffed) rate to 684-688, one of the office codes in American Samoa. She said...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 23, 2004 5:17 am
On Thursday 4 November 2004, I posted to these groups, and also posted to Usent (comp.dcom.telecom.tech and alt.dcom.telecom) about the billing I received from...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 22, 2004 11:32 pm
I checked with someone who has a better collection of "official"; telephone industry numbering documentation than I do.... In that early 1990s period, I have a...
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Joseph Singer
littlefuzzbear
Nov 21, 2004 11:56 am
... And *that* was just silly on the part of Bell South. They should have made it possible to dial 10 digits on all calls and you would not have to think just...
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Stanley Cline
roamer1
Nov 21, 2004 8:48 am
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:03:13 -0800 (PST), Raymond Burke wrote... ... The Smyrna Main wire center extends inside the Perimeter as well, in the Cumberland...
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Snickerdo
snickerdo406
Nov 21, 2004 6:40 am
... ... Atlanta's history sounds eerily similar to Toronto, and the 416/905 split in 1992. Originally, Bell told everyone that if your postal code started...
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Raymond Burke
c_o_historian
Nov 21, 2004 6:03 am
I can remember all of the hoopla about who was to stay in 404 and who was going to 706. I was living in South Georgia at that time, and seems as if I got ...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 19, 2004 6:50 pm
... Thanks for this additional info! It's MUCH more complex than I originally thought! I've seen some NPA maps from 1995 at the time that 770 was splitting off...
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jeepbuzz
Nov 19, 2004 6:23 pm
... alternate 706 access (which was originally intended to become mandatory in Aug.1992 for these as well) to those 35 ratecenters was ultimately discontinued,...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 19, 2004 4:51 am
This post doesn't indicate any specifics of local/EAS calling area expansions under the Ga-PSC and BellSouth during the 1980s/90s, but it does describe some of...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 19, 2004 3:48 am
SAIC's Telcordia (including TRA), once Bellcore (from 1984 thru 1997/98, and back then owned by the seven RBOCs, all spun-out of the broken-up AT&T back in...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 18, 2004 5:21 pm
Most of us have known that over the past five-plus years, the use of SAC-NPA 500 and SAC-NPA 900 service has declined. The only two "major" US carriers/telcos...
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Stanley Cline
roamer1
Nov 15, 2004 11:37 pm
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:09:30 -0000, Mike wrote ... There are some common "base" USOCs that have endured ever since AT&T created them (e.g., 1FR is residential...
Does anyone know of a source for looking up USOC codes? When dealing with expanded local calling area options, it would appear that the USOC starts with an A -...
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Luis Valdez
GuichoV
Nov 8, 2004 9:17 pm
I had learned of the 10-digit requirement to call Mexico from the U.S. a while back. The information was made available in a number of mexican newspapers. ...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 8, 2004 6:22 pm
It seems that the actual dialing plan for the Dominican Republic at this time is: - Seven-digits NXX-xxxx for "local" calling - 1+ten-digits for toll calling, ...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 7, 2004 9:54 am
... It happened in two stages -- there might still be details at the COFTEL website (Cofetel is an acronym en Espanol for the COmmission FEderale...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 6, 2004 4:22 pm
Mexico, a perennial "quagmire"; of telephone numbering/dialing/etc... Ever since the 1970s (and maybe earlier?), Mexico had been eight-significant...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 5, 2004 9:23 pm
... (SNIP) ... I couldn't find an "exact" date for this article -- the webpage seems to display only the current date (and time). But when I clicked on the...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 5, 2004 9:12 pm
Here is another "media" story on forthcoming ten-digit intra-809 dialing as well as the overlay with 829, for the Dominican Republic, next year. This comes...
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Mark J Cuccia
markjcuccia
Nov 4, 2004 6:29 pm
On Saturday 2 October 2004, the first official date of NANP-dialing and numbering for American Samoa, as +1-684, migrating away from the ITU E.164 Country Code...
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Andy Filer
andyf
Nov 2, 2004 3:54 pm
According to the Polar phone book we have in the office (thanks to a coworker there who actually looked it up for me), it is in fact local calling in both...
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Andy Filer
andyf
Nov 2, 2004 3:38 pm
We have a Polar phone book in our office (we're a neighboring phone company) and I just emailed someone in the office and asked them to look in the book --...
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czg7777
Nov 2, 2004 12:55 am
... Your first guess was right. The information in the database comes from a variety of sources, and it is only as good as what goes into it. I don't have very...
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poutinepoulet
Nov 1, 2004 9:34 pm
There is something I don't understand here or maybe there is missing data in the database. If I'm doing a search with the 701265 number its telling me that its...
