Re: Editing of area codes

Here is the distribution of digits for all current area codes in the NANP

Digit   1st     2nd     3rd
0            0       72        41
1            0       71        30
2          45       20        29
3          34       24        29
4          32       24        33
5          35       24        28
6          38       28        30
7          43       27        29
8          42       19        30
9          40         0        30

There are a total of 309 area codes. Beware of the following codes, as they can
genereate large bills:
   242 Bahamas
   246 Barbados
   264 Anguilla
   268 Antigua and Barbuda
   649 Turks & Caicos Islands
   868 Trinidad and Tobago
   869 St. Kitts & Nevis

These area codes, and several others, go to "foreign" areas, but a dialed as a
1+ call. for the definitive answers, go to
www.nanpa.com.   "This site provides information about the North American
Numbering Plan (NANP) and its administration. The NANP   is the numbering plan
for the Public Switched Telephone Network in the United States and its
territories, Canada,  Bermuda, and many Caribbean nations, including Anguilla,
Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and
Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and
Turks & Caicos. "

Bob Larkin



rob@dekko.com wrote:

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> I use the WorksRight software and may implement that.
>
> The consensus is that 1 is not currently used as the first digit in an
> area code, but may be in the future.  But if they did much software and
> hardware will have to be changed.
>
> This is what our problem was.
> To make it faster to dial in an emergency our new phone system (Cisco ip
> phones) was changed to dial 9911 if you dialed 911.  Therefore in a panic
> situation you'd get emergency.  Then we had a user enter an incorrect area
> code, which began with a 1.  9 to get out, 1 for long distance, and 1 for
> the first digit of the area code.  Fax didn't go?  Retry - numerous times.
>  Not real popular with the emergency dispatcher.  Our phone system has
> been changed back to require the 9911.  Seems there were other problems,
> (I don't know what.)  Hopefully the change will block the occurrence from
> repeating.  (9911315551212 would not go, we would trap that as too many
> digits and yet still not formatted for an international call.)
>
> Yet I've been asked to consider changing the software, for now, to make
> all area codes with a 1 invalid.  Failsafing I suppose.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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