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AREA CODES
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1+10-Digit MEANS CHANGES FOR CROSS-AREA CODE CUSTOMERS
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"Permissive dialing" period offers time to adjust
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New England Telephone customers whose local calling area
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crosses lata boundaries and who now dial seven digits for
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calls across area codes will soon have to dial 1+10 digits
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for those same calls. For example, customers in Kittery,
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Maine will have to dial "1", "603" and the seven-digit
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number to reach a party in Portsmouth, N.H.
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The price of these calls will not change, even though the
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dialing pattern required to make them will.
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As of March 1, all states -- except Vermont -- will be
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in aninterim "permissive dialing period" during which
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both 7- and "1"plus 10-digit calls can be made in the
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cross-area codelocations. Vermont will enter this permissive
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period on April 1. Permissive dialing ends on the following
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dates:
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** 603 area code: April 8
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* 413 area code: April 8
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* All other New England Telephone area codes: June 1
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The 1+10-digit dialing pattern has been in place since 508
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was created for customers calling back and forth between
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the 617 and 508 area codes of Eastern Massachusetts.
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New England Telephone will provide advance notice of the
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conversion schedule for each state in various forms of
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communication, including bill inserts and newspaper
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advertising.
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NORTH AMERICAN NUMBERING PLAN CHANGES
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This is the first of three dialing changes that New England
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Telephone will introduce over the next two years as part
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of an effort to replenish the exhausted supply of area
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codes in the United States, Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean.
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In February, five western Massachusetts communities --
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Westfield, Russell, Monson, Holyoke and Agawam -- were the
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first in New England to begin permissive dialing periods for
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two other new dialing patterns. The first eliminates the
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prefix R1S before all directly-dialed toll calls within the
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same area code. The second requires callers to dial R0S plus
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the area code and seven-digit number for all operator-assisted
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and calling-card calls, including those within the same area
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code.
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Before 1995 the company will convert all exchanges to new
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patterns. New England Telephone has been reviewing these
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changes with regulators in all five states.
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BUSINESS CUSTOMERS TAKE NOTE
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Managers may need to modify equipment, including software
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that controls alarms, autodialers and features such as speed
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dialing. New England Telephone will provide details before
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you need to begin making changes.
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