RE: Area code > 4 digits???

-----Original Message-----
From:   Kirk Yates [SMTP:yatesk@PATTONVILLE.K12.MO.US]
Sent:   Thursday, November 13, 1997 1:39 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Area code > 4 digits???



Don wrote:

> I sat in on a Y2k presentation this a.m. and a side item that the 
vendor
> mentioned was that area codes were going to be increased from 3 to 4
> digits in the near future.  This was news to me...  Anyone have any 
hard
> info and dates on this??
>
> Don in DC metro
>

I'd would be rather skeptical of that rumor.  With all the hassles 
caused by the
NANP (North American Numbering Plan) expanding to use previously 
reserved area
codes, going to a 4 digit area code would be a disaster.--
Kirk R. Yates

Gee.  I'd heard they were going to add A B C D E F keys to all phones 
and change them to hexadecimal !    :-)

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