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Commenting on the following message by Marvin Sirbu:

	In general, a complete re-working of the NANP is scheduled
	for the 1995 time frame when telephone numbers will probably
	go from 7 digits to 8.  

I don't understand why such a changeover (which, by the way, would be
*massively* disruptive -- far more so, I dare say, than the recent
French change to 8-digit phone numbers) would be necessary at all.

A *far* more reasonable change (and, indeed, one I thought I had heard
people on this list say was going to happen already) would be to intro-
duce area codes with *any* digit as the second digit (i.e., NXX codes,
as opposed to the current N0X/N1X set).

This, I assume, cannot be done until 1+ dialing is in use throughout
North America -- but I understood the plan was to phase in universal 1+
dialing anyway within the next few years.

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