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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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