Re: CHAT: postcodes

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:23:26 +0200 Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>
writes:
> On Sep/22/2002, Nik Taylor wrote:
> > I wonder how common that is?  Cell phones here just have numbers
> like
> > any other phone.  So, you can't tell from a number if it's a cell
> or a
> > regular phone number.  There might be exchanges reserved for
> cells, I'm not sure.
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In New York City, the area code 917 is almost exclusively used for cell
phones and beepers/pagers.  I've heard that there are normal phones also
under that area code because supposedly it would be illegal to have an
area code for just mobile things.  Interestingly, 917 extends over the
entire city, while the other area codes are limited to specific boroughs:
212, 646 = manhattan
718, 347 = brooklyn, queens, the bronx, staten island

The Bronx used to be part of the 212 zone until not that long ago.  I
don't remember if anyone's mentioned it yet, but in the USA, all area
codes used to have a 1 or a 0 as the middle digit (why 212 and 718 are
the original area codes and 646 and 347 are 'overlays'), until they ran
out of numbers.  Some areas got overlays, like NYC; other places, like
Jersey and Long Island, had their area codes split.  The two counties of
Long Island used to have the area code 516; now only Nassau has 516 and
Suffolk has 631.


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