A much bigger problem that is happening right now is area code splits. From
the information I have about fifty areas will split in the next year. Has
anyone seen solutions or services to update phone numbers?

Very often I have to go to www.bigbook.com to find a listing. It would be an
interesting hp3000 sockets application to go out to the net and validate a
phone number.

[log in to unmask] www.beechglen.com

btw,
Our web page has been updated and is now available at full T1. Any comments
would be welcome!


-----Original Message-----
From: Art Bahrs <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, July 28, 1997 6:47 AM
Subject: new "major disaster" -Reply



>Hi Terry,
>   Oh Boy,  oh boy.... now, where did that soapbox go too??? hehehe
>
>   I would love to show that article to a vendor that was B*tching about
how SRN
>put 20 characters in all phone number fields about a year ago... I mean
have you
>ever tried to enter a foreign (sp) number???
>
>I would rather expand the phone number length now... after all the way US
West
>works... it will take 'em 20 years to assign us new phone numbers hehehehe
>
>Art Bahrs
>
>>>> "SIMPKINS, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> 07/26/97 10:58am >>>
>From the SF Chronicle "Business" section, Saturday, July 26
>
>"As supply of area codes shrinks, more digits needed"
>..........  "experts at Bellcore expect that by the year 2031, all area
>codes will be exhausted"
>and then we'll have to increase the length of phone numbers,
>"that time frame may be optimistic, said Hugh Burrows, a Canadian
>telecommunications consultant who is working with the Industry Numbering
>Group, a North American task force trying to decide what kind of numbering
>scheme to adopt in the future."
>
>Just as we begin to get a grip on the "YR2000" issue, we get to start
>worrying about phone number lengths.
>Since you are already going to be in the code, now may be a great time to
>start expanding those phone number fields.
>
>
>Terry W. Simpkins
>Lucas Control Systems Products
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