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...
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...
Further to what I posted yesterday.... ... I tried to access the website at various times throughout the day today, Wednesday 15 March 2006, Central Standard...
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...
Execulink (8216) a independent Incumbent LEC in Canada's Ontario province, formerly two different telcos, 8216:Hurontario and 8226:North Norwich Tel, in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
About a week ago, I was informed (Thanks, Reynolds!) that there was an item on ebay for sale, a card of peel-off-stickers for dial-center number-card...
NANPA released the 4th Quarter 2005 Numbering Newsletter last week, available from the page: http://www.nanpa.com/newsletters/index.html the actual .pdf file...
Back in October, when I first arrived in New Iberia LA, I did a study of their telephone/exchange history from the back issues of the New Iberia Southern Bell...
I made another trip to Baton Route this Monday morning, to the Louisiana State Library, to research the old telephone directories... As I have time and get...
I had a chance to visit the State Library of Louisiana in Baton Rouge (the state capital) for about 90 minutes this Friday morning. I'm going to be making...
The 812 Area Code for the southern third of Indiana is re-opening area code Relief Planning. NANPA had opened up NPA Relief Planning for 812 a few years back,...
... Well, I either mis-dialed on Sunday night, or else Sprint-LD isn't always consistant in the type of recording that they are playing. On Sunday night, when...
In my post a few days ago about the Park Esplanade Apartments in New Orleans, at Esplanade Ave at Moss Street (Bayou St.John/City Park), I mentioned how these...
I have established landline service here in Lafayette LA, with BellSouth, served out of the "Lafayette-Vermillion" 1AESS (337-98x, which I call YUkon-x, even...
Regarding the new "Embarq" name for Sprint-(Nextel)'s ILEC operations being "spun-off";... yeah, I agree with what some have replied... mostly in the Yahoo- ...
