Art H Bahrs wrote:
> Hi All :)
>      <<< looking for soap box to rant on! hehehe>>>
>      Just in case anyone cares to try and call someone here in the Portland
> Oregon area come the summer of '99... it looks like we will be doing a Area
> Code Overlay to increase hte number of phones we can have.... :( ... They
> had expected this to be needed between 2003 and 2008 but no such luck...

You can thank Lockheed Martin for this. They now have the contract to
assign all the area codes in the country:

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