I have noticed that on the 'Local calling guide' database, the data for California 'Zone 3' is not included. Is zone 3 important in determining locality of...
I see that there are CLECs associated with the Leesville (Vernon Parish) Louisiana ratecenter, with their own "default" 337-NXX c.o.codes, from a search at...
I have been tasked with configuring a computerized FAX machine to dial various intraLATA #s. We only autoFAX to our customers, but as we get new customers (or...
I checked BellSouth's "Carrier Notifications" for 2005, and see that there is to be FURTHER EAS (local/free) calling in Louisiana, and this is also inter-LATA...
... This is true today. Any wireless phone should be able to call 911 even if de-activated and in the case of GSM phones does not even require that a SIM card...
It was ten years ago this month, in January 1995, that the "new" style area codes first took effect - i.e., the first use of area codes that had digits OTHER...
The following does NOT refer to "per-call" or "per-minute" charges on local calls or on certain local calling plans, but rather on "where" certain rural...
The 2d-half 2004 (dated October 2004) "NRUF" report from NANPA indicating area code exhaust projections, as well as the 2d-half-2004 (also dated October 2004)...
Per SBC Texas General Exchange Tariff, Section 38, the Allen rate center in LATA 552 will no longer be a mandatory EACS rate center, effective November 9,...
I was listening to an episode of the "Phil Harris & Alice Faye" radio sitcom, from sometime during the late 1940s or early 1950s. In the particular episode, at...
Toll-Free Numbering and Routing info has NOT been the "immediate" responsibility of NANPA or TRA for over ten years now, regardless of whether NANPA was...
The test number for the 909/951 NPA split in eastern Southern California was 951-951-0951. The 951-951 NPA-NXX c.o.code did *NOT* "pre-exist" as 909-951 --...
I found the following docket at the Washington (state) UTC (Utilities and Transportation Commission) website, docket #031803. The main URL for the WUTC site:...
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),...
Over the past few days, several sources (including Ian Angus' Telemanagement Canada, as posted this Monday in Telecom Digest), have stated that VeriZon has...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
Mexico, a perennial "quagmire" of telephone numbering/dialing/etc... Ever since the 1970s (and maybe earlier?), Mexico had been eight-significant...
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, ...
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...
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...