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Posted by Mark J Cuccia on August 21, 2006, 3:42 am
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On Wednesday 16-August-2006, the Illinois Commerce Commission approved an OVERLAY for NPA 217 in central Illinois, effective at a future TBD date. This was to be expected, since the ICC has approved overlays for all other NPAs in Illinois since the later 1990s, although the first overlay, the 847/224 northern Chicago IL suburbs overlay, took effect in Dec.2001, with mandatory 1+ten-digit dialing taking effect shortly AFTERWARDS in Jan.2002. The ICC "Case Number" for 217 NPA Relief has been 01-0656. The "ordering document", a pdf file, can be found at the following LONG URL: http://eweb.icc.state.il.us/e-docket/reports/view_file.asp?intIdFile=179842&strC=bd Other related ICC e-dockets can be found at: http://eweb.icc.state.il.us/e-docket/ and then enter in the "Case Number" desired. The best thing to click on next is "Documents". Various NPA Relief Plans at the ICC website, by case number are: 00-0475, FRI-30-JUN-2000 815 Relief Planning, 779 Overlay 00-0677, THU-19-OCT-2000 618 Relief Planning, 730 Overlay 00-0681, THU-19-OCT-2000 number conservation/pooling for: 815, 618, 217, 309 01-0656, FRI-19-OCT-2001 217 Relief Planning, now known to be OVERLAID Mandatory dates for ten-digit or 1+ten-digit intra-217 dialing, as well as the effective date of overlay with new NXX c.o.codes from the new NPA, are still TBD. Permissive ten or 1+ten digit intra-217 dialing is more than likely already permissive with most ILECs both at&t/Bell and independent, CLECs, wireless, etc., but there is still to be a "formal" date for promoting the "beginning" of permissive ten-digit / 1+ten-digit intra-217 dialing. The new overlay NPA code has NOT been announced yet by the ICC or by Neustar-NANPA, but the "GUESSED" at overlay NPA code has been 751. Other overlays, both active and planned, within Illinois are: 847/224, active since 2001/02, for the northern Chicago Metro suburbs; 815/779, March 2007, for northern Illinois outside Chicago Metro; 630/331, late 2007?, for the western/central Chicago Metro suburbs; 708/464, date TBD, for the southern/southwestern Chicago Metro subs; 312 & 773 / 872 (spells 'USA'), dates TBD, for the City of Chicago; NOTE: 312 is "The Loop" are of "downtown, while 773 is mostly the residential neighberhoods of Chicago. 618/730, date TBD, for southern Illinois; and now 217 / ?751?, date TBD, for central Illinois. It appears that the projected exhaust/relief dates for current Illinois area codes have 217 exhausting and needing ?751? relief, now known to be an overlay, BEFORE the 618/730 overlay. Again this is only speculation, but I am going to "guess" that VeriZon/GTE/etc. or its successor if VZ/legacy-GTE does actually "exit" GTE-Midwest, as VZ made some "noises" a few months ago, will provide the 751 Test Number, even though at&t/SBC/Ameritech/ Illinois Bell is the other major ILEC in the 217 NPA region. Afterall VZ/GTE is providing the 779 test number (815 base NPA), and is to be providing the 730 test number (618 base NPA), even though at&t/SBC/Ameritech/IL-Bell is the other major ILEC in these base 815 and 618 NPA regions. at&t/SBC/Ameritech/IL-Bell seems to be the SOLE ILEC in the immediate Chicago Metro Area of 847/224, 630/331, 708/464, 312/773/872. SO FAR... there's nothing in the immediate "works" for future relief of NPA 309 in northwest-central Chicago, the Peoria area as well as the Illinois side of the Illinois/Iowa Quad Cities Metro Area. However, it could be that 309 might need some "relief" in about five or six years. I would assume that the ICC will be consistant in approving an overlay of 309, but I presently have no speculation or guess as to what the future more-than-likely overlay NPA numeric-code will be. Also, here is some history of earlier area codes splits in Illinois: There were only FOUR area codes assigned to the state of Illinois with the original US/Canada area code format of Wednesday-22-October-1947: 312 Chicago and northeastern Illinois 815 northern IL outside of Chicago Metro 217 central IL 618 southern IL Note the middle digit of '1' in all four original Illinois NPA codes, the original intent of AT&T for state/provinces with MULTIPLE area codes to have all of them in that state/province of the 'N1X' format; while the original intent of AT&T was for states/provinces with ONE and ONLY one area code to have the code of the 'N0X' format. This policy or intent was discarded by AT&T in the early 1950s for all future area code splits. In 1957, area code 309 was created, carved out of PARTS of both 815 and 217, for central/northwestern IL, around the Peoria IL area, as well as the Quad Cities Metro Area along the Mississippi River border with Iowa. I don't have the month/date of this split though -- all I know is that it was sometime in 1957, but it would have been a FLASH CUT, with no formal/official permissive dialing period. These five area codes in Illinois, 312, 815, 309, 217, 618, served the state of Illinois throughout the most stable period of the NANP, the 1960s and 70s, as well as for MOST of the 1980s era. The first of the more recent era of "splits" was in 1989/90, when the new 708 split from 312. 708 covered the previous 312 region OUTSIDE of the City Limits of Chicago, while 312 was retained for all of the City of Chicago. Permissive: Friday-11-November-1989 Mandatory: Friday-09-February-1990 This remained "stable" until 1995... At first, a temporary wireless overlay of the 312 and 708 region took effect with the new 630 area code, effective Sat-15-January-1995. Continued implementation of this 630 wireless overlay was HALTED by the Illinois Commerce Commission several months later, by mid-1995. There was a new Chicago Metro area code relief plan agreed to by the ICC and Ameritech/IL-Bell and the wireless industry. I seem to think that any wireless customers who were given new cellphone or pager numbers with the 630 NPA were allowed to retain them -- there are a lot of inconsistancies with NPA assignments to ratecenters in the Chicago Metro area when looking at various telco industry and ICC records, i.e., Telcordia-TRA LERG/etc, and at the Neustar-NANPA database at their website. Some of this might have to do with the way the ICC ordered "political boundary" things in the 1989 and mid-1990s Chicago Metro area NPA splits though... The new 708 relief plan was to be a STAGGERED 3-way split as follows: 708/847, with 847 for the north Chicago IL suburbs Permissive: Saturday-20-January-1996 Mandatory: Saturday-20-April-1996 708/630, with 630 for west-central Chicago IL suburbs Permissive: Saturday-03-August-1996 Mandatory: Saturday-30-November-1996 And then there was the 312/773 NPA split later in the year, with the "Loop" or "downtown" area of Chicago retaining 312, while the more residential/neighberhood areas within the City of Chicago split off to the new 773 NPA Permissive: Saturday-12-October-1996 Mandatory: Saturday-11-January-1997 These were the last of the Chicago or Illinois splits. Everything since then has been OVERLAY. The first overlay in Illinois was the 847/224 overlay effective Thursday-13-December-2001. There were two brand-new 224-NXX c.o.codes effective on that date. However, mandatory 1+ten-digit intra-847 dialing didn't begin until a few weeks later, on Saturday 05-January-2002. Mark J. Cuccia markjcuccia at yahoo dot com Lafayette LA, formerly of New Orleans LA pre-Katrina | ||||||||||
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Posted by Mark J Cuccia on August 22, 2006, 12:18 am
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> Other related ICC e-dockets can be found at: > http://eweb.icc.state.il.us/e-docket/ > > and then enter in the "Case Number" desired. > > The best thing to click on next is "Documents". > > Various NPA Relief Plans at the ICC website, by case number are: > > 00-0475, FRI-30-JUN-2000 > 815 Relief Planning, 779 Overlay > > 00-0677, THU-19-OCT-2000 > 618 Relief Planning, 730 Overlay > > 00-0681, THU-19-OCT-2000 > number conservation/pooling for: > 815, 618, 217, 309 > > 01-0656, FRI-19-OCT-2001 > 217 Relief Planning, now known to be OVERLAID > > Mandatory dates for ten-digit or 1+ten-digit intra-217 dialing, > as well as the effective date of overlay with new NXX c.o.codes > from the new NPA, are still TBD. > > Permissive ten or 1+ten digit intra-217 dialing is more than likely > already permissive with most ILECs both at&t/Bell and independent, > CLECs, wireless, etc., but there is still to be a "formal" date for > promoting the "beginning" of permissive ten-digit / 1+ten-digit > intra-217 dialing. > > The new overlay NPA code has NOT been announced yet by the ICC or > by Neustar-NANPA, but the "GUESSED" at overlay NPA code has been 751. It turns out that the overlay to 217 (at this time projected sometime during 2009) will be 447, NOT 751 afterall! The ICC website has a link to a "press release" dated today, Monday 21 August 2006, http://www.icc.illinois.gov/docs/tc/060821ac217PR.pdf but I'm instead going to a "PAGE NOT FOUND" message. I did a "google news" search and came up with the Bellevue IL News- Democrat from today, Monday 21-August-2006, an article on the overlay to 217 in cenral Illinois, and it mentions 447 will be the overlay code, possibly in 2009. http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/15327672.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Mon, Aug. 21, 2006 Central Illinois getting another area code Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois is getting another new area code. The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a second number for the 217 area in central Illinois. At some point, the number 447 also will be used, the commission said Monday. That will happen when the remaining supply of 217 numbers is used up by the flood of new cell phones and faxes. The change could take place some time in 2009. Using two codes in the same geographic area - called an "overlay" - means every call will require punching in the area code and the phone number. That's 10 digits in all. (snip) ----------------------------------------------------------------- There already happens to be a 217-447 c.o.code, for Beason IL, BESNILXCRS0, "VeriZon South-- Illinois (Alltel)" OCN:1000. THis is a small town, and by the time they might be assigned any 447-NXX code, they will already be on a ten or 1+ten-digit mandatory basis. It was once Alltel, but probably transferred to GTE/Contel sometime in the early/mid-1990s, as part of various sales/transfers/etc. of ILECs between legacy GTE and legacy Contel, as well as Alltel... HOPEFULLY, VZ-GTE (or at&t/SBC/Ameritech/IL-Bell?) will assign the 447-NXX c.o.code for the test-number to some point well outside of the local calling area of Beason IL, or any other ratecenter that might have local/EAS dialing with Beason IL, so as to avoid any potential code/numbering/dialing conflict. Afterall, the 447-NXX-xxxx test-number will more than likely be activated well BEFORE mandatory ten or 1+ten digit intra-217 dialing takes effect. Mark J. Cuccia markjcuccia at yahoo dot com Lafayette LA (formerly of New Orleans LA pre-Katrina) | ||||||||||
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Posted by Mark J Cuccia on August 22, 2006, 9:29 am
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Earlier I wrote: > It turns out that the overlay to 217 (at this time projected sometime
> during 2009) will be 447, NOT 751 afterall! > > The ICC website has a link to a "press release" dated today, Monday > 21 August 2006, http://www.icc.illinois.gov/docs/tc/060821ac217PR.pdf > but I'm instead going to a "PAGE NOT FOUND" message. This link started working this morning, Tuesday 22 August 2006, at about 8:00am CDT. mjc | ||||||||||
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> NPA 217 in central Illinois, yesterday, Wednesday 16-August-2006.
>
> This was to be expected, since the ICC has approved overlays for
> all other NPAs in Illinois since the later 1990s, although the
> first overlay, the 847/224 northern Chicago IL suburbs overlay,
> took effect in Dec.2001, with mandatory 1+ten-digit dialing taking
> effect shortly AFTERWARDS in Jan.2002.
>
> The ICC "Case Number" for 217 NPA Relief has been 01-0656.
>
> The "ordering document", a pdf file, can be found at the following
> LONG URL:
>