Date: 8 Oct 2000 06:15:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20001008101509.6563.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com> From: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org (Telecom Digest) To: telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Subject: Telecom Digest V2000 #80 Reply-To: editor@telecom-digest.org Sender: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Errors-To: owner-telecom-digest@telecom-digest.org Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: b77c77f1d661ca469e0be6e05aa5cac1 Status: RO X-Status: Telecom Digest Sunday, October 8 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 080 In this issue: Any news about Pat? Re: Any news about Pat? 334 in southern Alabama to split in 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Oct 2000 10:27:46 -0400 From: mikedon@primenet.com (Mike Donnelly) Subject: Any news about Pat? Any news about Pat Townsen? - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Oct 2000 13:55:51 -0400 From: johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine) Subject: Re: Any news about Pat? >Any news about Pat Townsen? Not really. He's still where he has been for the past several months, could use some money (send to me via Paypal and I can get it to him), and will probably be back around the beginning of next year. - -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Oct 2000 03:05:23 -0400 From: Linc Madison Subject: 334 in southern Alabama to split in 2001 The state of Alabama announced this week that it is planning to split the 334 NPA, with Montgomery keeping 334 and Mobile moving to the t.b.a. new code. I wasn't able to find anything on the State of Alabama's web sites, including However, here is a news item from the Birmingham News' "Alabama Live" web site: "The dividing line would start around Melvin, near the Mississippi border, and snake near the towns of Pine Apple, Georgiana, Evergreen and Wing." The article also quotes figures for the number of customers on each side. Montgomery (keeping 334): 539,680 Mobile (new code t.b.a.): 355,033 The only things the article says by way of timing are that the split will occur in 2001, and the new code will be assigned "by summer 2001." The towns they mention, which also don't specify which side is which, are pretty small burgs. Pine Apple is in southeastern Wilcox County, just north of where SR-47 ends at SR-10. Georgiana is in southern Butler County, on US-31 just off exit 114 of I-65. Evergreen is the county seat of Conecuh County, and is at exit 96 of I-65, on US-84/US-31. Wing is in southwestern Covington County, on SR-137 right on the Florida border. I'm guessing that Evergreen will be in the new code, while Georgiana stays in 334, but Pine Apple and Wing I won't even hazard a guess for. It appears, from interpolation, that Coffeeville, Jackson, Monroeville, and Brewton will all change to the new code, while Demopolis, Selma, Greenville, Andalusia, Dothan, Auburn, and Tuskegee will keep 334. The article also notes that 205 is running short of numbers yet again, but that the Alabama PSC is waiting to see the results of number conservation efforts before making a decision on relief for 205. They still have both splits and an overlay on the table as options. The proposed split is a "doughnut-and-hole" arrangement, with Birmingham keeping 205 while Pell City, Clanton, Jasper, and Tuscaloosa change to a new code. Bessemer would be right about on the line, but its status is not mentioned in the news item. - -- For faster reply, use Telecom.LincMad@Com, reversing punctuation LincMad's Telecom Page: Area Codes & Splits - -- The Telecom Digest is currently robomoderated. Please mail messages to editor@telecom-digest.org. ------------------------------ End of Telecom Digest V2000 #80 *******************************