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...Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities must decide before the end of the year how to distribute the new codes. One option is an overlay plan, assigning new numbers to newly-installed lines within the old area codes. The other is the traditional "area code split," in which invisible lines are drawn within the area, resulting in changed numbers for the current residents...
NYNEX officials hope to implement what they call the "geographic overlay" plan. This would keep current telephone numbers in eastern Massachusetts the same, but would install new lines in the immediate Boston-area section of the 781 area code and other lines in outlying areas of the city part of the 978 region...
...complicated by recent action by the Federal Communications Commission. Under its ruling, an area that adopts an overlay plan must also implement 10-digit dialing for all telephone calls. A caller in the 617 area, for instance, would not have to press 1 before dialing the new 781 area code...
Harshbarger wants NYNEX to adopt the "geographic split" reminiscent of the last area code change in 1988. With the split, the current 617 area code would be split into 617 and 781. A portion removed from the 508 area code would have the number changed to 978. The result is 1 million people with changed area codes...
...eight calls to ex-girlfriend Paula Barbieri--who has offered the potentially damaging news in her deposition, and may soon say in court, that she broke up with him that very day--and the two calls to Nicole. But the records that revealed he twice dialed his 999 code to retrieve messages from his cellular-phone voice mail--including a 7 a.m. breakup call from Barbieri--were wrong, said Simpson. And even though he told police the day after the murders that he had picked up his messages, he now said...