... Toll-free numbers do not always point to a POTS number. You can have dedicated in WATS trunks though that's less and less the case since toll-free is...
Last week, on Tuesday 21 February 2006, I posted the following info on St.Martinville LA (BellSouth), the Parish Seat of St.Martin Parish, in a posting titled...
The ratecenters and switch-CLLIs have mostly now been identified for the test-numbers for the three major ILEC/CLECs providing service in the 519/ON (being...
The use of the name "Breaux Bridge Telephone Company" was retained in the alphabetical listings, at least into the 1970s-era... but the official name of the...
The 616/906 area code split, where the Michigan Upper Peninsula was split off from 616 (the area code for the west coast for Michigan's mainland) took place in...
"Pasted" below is the text from a recent Nebraska PSC Press Release on how the life of area code 402 is being extended until 2010.... I also wonder what was...
At the beginning of my post titled: "NEBRASKA PSC EFFORTS EXTEND 402 AREA CODE TO 2010 (Press Release article)" (which was the text of a recent press-release...
I wonder if the split was based on needing to assign every 'office' a block of 10,000 or more in those days? I know Olney, IL which had EX 2 and EX 3 until...
... In a listing I'm including further below, the following states were actually broken up into several further "states" as far as AT&T was concerned for...
I have received a copy of an AT&T 1966 "Area Code Directory" (dated 01-September-1966). This document would later be called the "Telephone Area Code...
Mark, I know for a fact that one of our cousins managed to call Hawaii directly from Olney IL sometime prior to 1968. She was a kid, the parents had a touch...
... Most of Hawaii did NOT yet had seven-digit numbers until around 1970 or 1971. AT&T hadn't opened up customer dialing to Hawaii until after most of Hawaii...
This is the the one that had the 2-xxx1 private line on the older exchange where xxx was the line number. It had extra stuff put on the exchange to handle...
Further to those "offshore" parts of the NANP throughout the years..... AT&T "created" 907 for Alaska and 808 for Hawaii back in 1957, and then in 1958, 809...
Out of curiosity I'm wondering what was generally happening when someone dialed (area code) 555-1212. I know that when you dialed directory in some states...
Back when 8BBS was a going thing. There were lots of thee little tricks and hacks and things like this. Also telco peope and linemen wouold often take pity on...
... In Indiana at least, after divestiture, when you dialed (NPA)+, or just 555-1212, you went to an AT&T directory assistance operator. If you dialed (1+)411,...
It had already been announced that the 706 area code in north GA (outside of the Atlanta 404/770/678/future-470 metro overaly area) would be overlaid in Spring...
The 700 c.o.code has been reserved NANP-wide as a "special" aka "oddball" c.o.code, along the lines of the eight N11 codes when considered as c.o.codes, and...
... 905-700 has been in service for about a year. Futureway is a wireline CLEC. [...] ... 809-950 is already assigned to Economitel (CLEC) in the Dominican...
Execulink (8216) a independent Incumbent LEC in Canada's Ontario province, formerly two different telcos, 8216:Hurontario and 8226:North Norwich Tel, in the...
... Execulink originally started out as a dialup ISP. They bought a number of smaller ISPs and, as I understand it, were bought by the earlier mentioned phone...
When GTE and Contel merged circa 1992/93, several legacy GTE and legacy Contel areas were sold off, mostly to Alltel or Citizens' Tel. (GTE did acquire some...
On Tuesday 14 March 2006, I wrote regarding VeriZon/GTE's sale of its ... I did some further "google" searches, and the PTI (Pacific Telecoms Inc) that VeriZon...
In my first post (on Tuesday), about VZ/GTE selling off another telco ... A few years ago, I had seen a picture of a late 1950s or early 1960s advertisement...
As of 2006, these seem to now be the only states (outside of Pennsylvania and Virginia which are BA/NYNEX for the BOC) that have legacy GTE and/or legacy...
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