RE: (erielack) OTArea Codes was [ Erie 2547 ]

["Tupaczewski, Paul R \(Paul\)" <paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com>]

ENOUGH WITH THE AREA CODES! THIS HAS GOTTEN WAY OFF TOPIC!

I, as many others, have replied off-list to the original question. This
does not need to be shared with the list!

Back to discussions of EL/DL&W/Erie!

	- Paul

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary R. Kazin [mailto:gkazin_@_yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:42 PM
> To: EL Mail List
> Subject: Re: (erielack) OTArea Codes was [ Erie 2547 ]
> 
> --- bob gillis <robertgillis_@_verizon.net> wrote:
> > A few of the areas that have overlay area codes are in NJ 
> 201 and 551, 
> > 973 and 862, 732 and 848;
> 
> 609 was chopped up roughly on the ancient East/West Jersey line, with
> 856 added on the west.  908 doesn't have an overlay - yet.
> 
> 
> > Staten Island 718, 347 and 917.
> 
> Those cover the WHOLE city, outside Manhattan: The Bronx, 
> Brooklyn and Queens also use those codes.
> 
> > Here in North Jersey we have to dial 10 digits.
> 
> I'm not sure if that applies in 908, 609 and 856...
> 
> The 'good' thing is that you don't have to dial the '1' to 
> reach the overlay area code, just everywhere else.
> 
> > Before long probably everyone will have to dial 10.
> 
> If the phone companies had decided to add a digit when the 
> supply of 'old style' (middle digit a 0 or 1) area codes was 
> dwindling, we'd have avoided this mess - so far.  It would 
> have increased the available telephone numbers by a factor of 
> 10, while what they did only got about 4 times as many.  
> Supposedly, they were concerned about computer software, 
> etc...  At the rate we are going, we'll still have to add a 
> digit in the foreseeable future.
> 
> Gary R. Kazin
> DL&W Milepost R35.7
> Rockaway, New Jersey

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