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Edited by Access Denied
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Issue #7
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Title: 414 Area Code Split
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Date: 10/11/93
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By: Access Denied
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414 Area Code Split
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Here's an interesting article. It mainly applies to 414, but it's
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interesting reading for people of other area codes.
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[This was taken from the Milwaukee Journal, Oct. 10, 1993]
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[All comments by the editor (Access Denied) are in []s.]
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Touch-tones to get a workout
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when new area codes begin
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Imagine this: You pick up your phone to call your neighbor
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across the street and you have to dial an area code that's so
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different from your own you think he's in another state or country.
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[Country? Come on now...Canada maybe.]
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That's probably exactly what you will be doing in a few years
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to reach not only your new neighbor, but any number of newcomers in
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this part of the state [South East Wisconsin].
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Wisconsin, like other states, is running out of telephone
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numbers.
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And nowhere in the state is that problem more pressing than in
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that portion of Wisconsin that uses the 414 area code, a thickly
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populated area that covers most of eastern Wisconsin from Kenosha
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to Green Bay and beyond.
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"There are no more area codes," sighs Gary Drexler, a member
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of the Wisconsin State Telephone Associations's engineering
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committee, which is examining this particular bare cupboard. "The
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guy down the street from you will have to have a different number."
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"The 414 area will be split some way in the 1996-1997 time
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frame. We will need a new area code by then," agrees Phil Jenkins,
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an engineer in the telecommunications division of the state Public
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Service Commission, which regulates utilities in the state.
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More 11-Digit Calls
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But wait. Before the state starts thinking about giving out
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new area codes in the 414 area or anywhere else, it has another job
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to do. And state commissioners probably will do that in about two
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weeks.
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Be prepared, then, to begin dialing 11 digits instead of
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today's 8, for long-distance calls within the same area code. [Oh
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darn. If you can't deal with that you should be dead.]
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The state telephone association is recommending that change as
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a first step toward handling the number crunch -- and PSC staffers
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said last week that they supported it.
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Commissioners are to take up the proposed change at a meeting
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later this month. If they agree, you will have to start dialing 1
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plus the area code plus the number you are trying to reach for all
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long-distance calls.
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Today, you don't have to dial the area code for long-distance
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calls within the same area code.
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Change Comes In 1995
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The phone association says it wants to begin this new dialing
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sequence on Jan. 1, 1995. That's when a new national numbering
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plan goes into effect.
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The national plan also grew out of the same problem: not
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enough area codes as we know them today to go around.
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The explosion in fax machines, cellular phones, pagers,
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computer modems and other technology has gobbled up almost the
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entire combination of available numbers today. [Look at New York.]
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The current system uses either a 1 or 0 in the middle of the
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three-digit area code to help telephone switching equipment
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distinguish between area codes and the first three digits of the
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local exchange.
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The trouble is that that gives only 144 area codes, each of
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which can support about 7.8 million seven-digit phone numbers.
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[780 exchnages? Sure, why not?] So, the industry has decided to
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begin using other numbers in the middle of the area codes, which
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will give it 640 new area codes.
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That means not only that telephone switching equipment will
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have to be upgraded, but that something will need to be done about
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dialing patterns, such as the first three digits of local
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exchanges, so that computerized switching equipment does not get
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confused. [Good bye ESS7. Hello ESS10?]
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The Wisconsin State Telephone Association, a trade group of
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phone companies in the state, including Ameritech and GE, is
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recommending that the area code be dialed each time for all long-
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distance calls even within the same area code.
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Let's take 224-2280 as an example. [Milwaukee Journal
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Business line or something.] In the future, that 224 could be
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either an area code or a local exchange number. But phone
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switching equipment would be able to recognize the difference if
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someone dialed a combination of 1 plus 10 digits. That's why the
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state phone association is suggesting the change Drexler said.
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What does this mean for consumers?
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For existing residential customers it means nothing much more
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that the inconvenience of dialing a few extra numbers.
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For people who move into the 414 area code from outside the
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area, it will mean assignment of a new area code, other than 414.
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People who move from one local calling area to another, say from
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Shorewood to Oak Creek, would also get a new area code.
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For businesses, such as telemarketing firms, the change could
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be a big headache. It could mean extra time in dialing. [Oh darn
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again. I'll really miss those shitheads calling me at 6 in the
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morning. They can burn in hell for all I care.]
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Bob Schulze, customer services director for Schneider
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Communications, a Green Bay based company that provides telephone
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service to 18,000 businesses, suggests businesses begin thinking
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today about upgrading their PBXs, or private branch exchanges, [PBX
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= Private Branch Exchange. So? Like that really explains it to
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the average idiot who lives in Milwaukee (85 percent of the
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people)] so that dialing changes can be programmed.
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"If I were a business customer I would very quickly be talking
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to my programmers about what kind of equipment would be needed," he
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said. "They should look at this carefully."
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The state telephone association, however, has tried to
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minimize the disruptions.
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For example, it could have suggested giving all suburbs a new
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area code, as was done a few years ago in the Chicago area.
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[708/312 for all you idiots.]
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But that would have resulted in a great deal of extra expenses
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for businesses, which would have needed to change letterheads,
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business cards and other things. That's why, Drexler said, the
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phone companies are suggesting the state approve a system in which
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all newcomers to 414 would get new area codes. [Why you would WANT
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to come to 414 is beyond me though.]
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[Here's my comments. I think this is a needed change. If anyone
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bitches about it, fuck them. Like it's so hard to dial 3 more
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numbers when you dial someone. Maybe all those people will die.
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This change will happen anyway so there's no need to protest it.
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People will get used to it very fast.]
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