... It always looks rather foreign to me seeing numbers written that way, probably because "dot" separators are common in some European countries. For example,...
[snip] ... Not that I know of, but as others have noted, it's predecessor did have the E1. ... The 211s had two different "hooks" that I know of; one for the...
... I have photos of both the 201 and 211 forms of the Spacesaver/hanging handset mountings on my web site, http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/phones/#wall ...
I have updated the Panel-Switchman WEB site. It now includes more movies for both Windows Media Player and Apple Quicktime. Under the Quicktime section there...
On Wednesday 25 February 2009, I had mentioned the following in ... [ ... ] ... As of today (Mon-02-March-2009), the 304-666, 304-800, 304-900 NPA-NXX...
Here is a Bell System Practice that shows the “Official” colors of the backboards used for key system installations. SECTION 518-300-100 Issue 1, March,...
There are media reports (radio/TV/newspaper websites) indicating that the Alabama PSC is to vote today (Tuesday 03-March-2009) at their regular monthly meeting...
Hi centraloffice; Â Â I though the plant put the green board dead center of the whole backboard. I the planting of a typical is O.K. but the Plant and PBX...
... The AL-PSC has approved an OVERLAY to the 256 Area Code! There is an item at the website of WRCB-TV Chattanooga TN (in an adjacent state, and NPA 423, NOT...
On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Steve Cichorsky <steve at telephonepioneer.net> posted the following links from ... This is not uncommon. When implementing mandatory...
... AU CONTRARE! The 385 overlay is NOT to the entire state, but ONLY to 801. 801 shrunk down to just the Wasatch Front/SLCity Metro area when 435 split off...
Roger is right on. There is really no reason any more for a split. overlays should be the ONLY expansion method. More and more have to dial 10 digits. So what?...
I think that 10 digit dialing is silly, and the arguments that it is required in an overlay have never held any water for me. If I dial: NXX-NNNN or ...
Clearly in some cases it is not immediately necessary, but for uniformity it make much more sense to have a reasonably uniform dialing plan for a large area,...
... Even with rotary phones, more and more people these days make toll calls (to other area codes) requiring (1+)ten-digits, and have been doing so since the...
... EXACTLY! There are NO ambiguities, NO need for post-dial-delays/timeouts (at least not for calling POTS NANP numbers), and FIXED, CLOSED, UNIFORM dialing. ...
... You are preaching to my choir, but to play devil's advocate there's also the thing about areas such as urban California (LA/SFO) as well as the metro NYC...
... <snip> ... W have agreed to disagree on this subject in the past, but the NANP is certainly better for computer programmers dealing with phone numbers and ...
On Wed, 3/4/09, Roger Conklin <Roger.Conklin at usa.net> wrote ... "Much-of-the-rest-of-the-World" may have originally DEVELOPED in this manner, 30-50 or more...
One significant difference is that while email addresses are variable length, they are always closed in the sense that you can tell when you're at the end....
I think the point that Mike was making is that with open numbering systems, there needs to be some additional logic present (in the way of time-outs, etc.) to...
There is an article from yesterday, Tuesday 03-March-2009, in New Hampshire's "Union Leader" newspaper, regarding FairPoint's continuing problems in its recent...
I think one of the considerations was that when there is an overlay they didn't want to give the people with the historical area code an advantage of being...