Re: Area Codes and Prefixes, esp. 200

Mar 06, 2007 0 Replies


Neal McLa>> If you're counting dial pulses, the lowest would be


>> 212-221-1111, except that it might be tied with
>> 212-212-1111 if the Illinois Commerce Commission
>> were assigning NNXs in New York.
> The Illinois Commerce Commission doesn't assign central
> office codes Neustar's NANPA does.

Agreed. But state commissions can request specific CO codes, and I doubt that Neustar would have assigned 847-847 if the ICC hadn't requested it.


... So the lowest theoretical number in the NANP, counting
> dialpulses, would still be 212-212-1111...

Which is tied with 212-221-1111 (a working number, BTW).


> The highest counting dial pulses would be 909-900-0000, an
>> unassigned number in the Fantana, California rate center.
> Actually, the highest theoretical dialpulse-counted NANP
> number would be 900-900-0000...

Agreed, if you include "easily recognizable codes" as area codes, which I didn't.


Neal McLain



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