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In article <NEWTNews.803957871.25151.Boyland@tboyland-s1.atlanta.com>,
Thomas Boyland  <Boyland@atlanta.com> wrote:
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>Nope, From eevrything Ive seen, its effective July 1st Officially! 
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>-TomB
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>In Article<3seft6$rd4@mordred.gatech.edu>, <fryedc@isye.gatech.edu> write:
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>> Subject: Re: New Area Codes
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>> Does that change start Dec 1 ?
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Actually, in their infinite wisdom (gack), they've expanded the local calling
effective July 1.  This includes some of 706 and some numbers in Alabama.
The area code split officially begins Dec 1, with permissive dialing beginning
Sept 1.  

In the first case (July 1), the repercussions are limited -- hopefully your
switch can deal with 10 digit dialing where you don't need (in fact, as I read
it, can't have) 1+10, but just the area code + phone number.

As for the area code split, you can start dialing with 770 in September, but 
you won't get an operator intercept if you choose the wrong NPA until December.
At that point, for those of us outside the perimeter (and some locations just
inside around Chamblee, and not including some or all of Forest Park outside
-- yes, I purposely made that sound confusing, because it is... ;-)), our
business cards better read 770.  Actually, I would think that the exception
cases are a result of having central offices that happen to be serve areas
with exchanges inside _and_ outside the perimeter, but I don't think that's 
strictly true.  Perhaps it's just the older ones like the 1AEs that can't
be programmed as easily.  Anyone know the real answer?

As I recall, for the first half of 1996, if you accidentally dial using the
wrong area code you'll get an operator intercept message.

Southern Bell has a document that they mailed out a few of weeks ago with 
a fair amount of information about this stuff.  You can probably ask your
account rep to mail you a copy, or if there's interest, I'll make it available
via fax.

-deb

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