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New England Telephone has announced that NPA617 (Eastern Mass.) is
being split, with the area outside (inner) Metro Boston and some of
the South Shore being moved into the new NPA508. Joy of joys for
the affected! Worcester, Lowell, Maynard and New Bedford all get
a new area code, along with suburbs like Framingham and Concord.
Yet the Western Mass. NPA413 is practically empty. (Who drew the
original lines?!?)
In the meantime, the ISDN Standards Committee T1D1 (which I'm on)
has faced the question of how to set up a numbering plan for North
America, based on extending the present plan to include non-local
exchange ISDNs? For example, Telenet wants their own NXX codes.
Bellcore has offered them an area code, but from the "interchangeable"
range (like "552"), so it won't be dialable from telephones until
we prepare to run out of current-style area codes.
If we give the other carriers NXX codes, some area codes may exhaust
earlier. That will, of course, force the rest of the network to
catch up and go to universal 1+ dialing before the presently-estimated
1995 date.
This got me thinking: How close to full up are the NPAs? So I hacked
the following together based upon the V&H tape used for billing.
Sorry I couldn't make it multi-column or get states listed. This
may be a clue as to which codes split next. (I've added my own comments.)
fred
NPA COUNT COMMENTS
201 543 North Jersey. Getting right up there.
202 437
203 349
204 308
205 522
206 431
207 306
208 246
209 257
212 467
213 524 Los Angeles already split off 818.
214 542 A Dallas split is rumored soon.
215 481
216 477
217 325
218 267
219 307
301 538 Maryland. Busier than 617.
302 73 Delaware. Every state gets one, y'know.
303 557 Colorado has been growing...
304 298
305 540 Miami too.
306 416
307 133 Wyoming.
308 186
309 237
312 640 Why hasn't Chicago split yet?
313 504
314 454
315 228
316 332
317 325
318 298
319 308
401 108 Rhode Island.
402 385
403 544 Alberta and some NWT - Canada's busiest
404 456
405 462
406 316
407 0
408 216
409 255
410 0
412 377
413 109 W. Mass - what a waste of a good code!
414 378
415 483 San Francisco, also rumored for split.
416 433
417 181
418 327
419 304
501 480
502 310
503 441
504 267
505 261
506 143
507 249
508 0
509 213
512 501 San Antonio, TX.
513 396
514 363
515 377
516 283
517 285
518 211
519 286
601 358
602 440
603 193
604 480
605 310
606 240
607 146
608 210
609 204
610 0
612 424
613 220
614 338
615 430
616 317
617 533 E. Mass - splitting off 508 in 1988
618 300
619 329
701 333
702 195
703 415
704 265
705 239
706 96 Northwest Mexico hack, not a real NPA
707 145
708 0
709 237
710 0 Unlisted code used for AT&T Government services.
712 265
713 414
714 364
715 288
716 322
717 410
718 294
719 0
801 265
802 167
803 396
804 371
805 193
806 225
807 97 W. Ontario - another waste.
808 163
809 340
810 0
812 243
813 344
814 237
815 255
816 401
817 381
818 240
819 282
900 24
901 178
902 221
903 0
904 356
905 206
906 109 Upper Michigan, tied with 413.
907 340
908 0
909 0
910 0
912 270
913 399
914 256
915 257
916 319
917 0
918 257
919 510 North Carolina's growing quickly.