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Processor Cycle - In article , Larry G wrote: About three years ago, Western Riverside County was to get a new area code, 951, but this was delayed. Whatever happened to the proposal? Does anyone know if it's still a go?The proposal as it existed then, has been killed completely. The planwas to split off part of 909 into 951, and then overlay the remainingpart of 909 with 752. However, the people of California let it be knownthat having to dial 1+10D would be an unbearable burden, so alloverlays in California were cancelled.For more information on the 909/951 situation, go to the CaliforniaPublic Utilities Commission at However, please note that the maps linked from the CPUC page areabsolutely useless, since you can't actually see the proposed area codeboundary through the thicket of extraneous information. Download thePDF of the Industry Plan (1.0 megabyte) and jump to page 75 of 86. Also, is anyone aware of any fundamental reorganization of the numbering system before we run out of area codes altogether? At this rate of area code growth, it's looking like that will happen sooner rather than later.There will definitely not be a fundamental reorganization of thenumbering system before we run out of area codes, unless you count thefull implementation of various forms of local number pooling. However,area code growth has just about stopped completely. Texas added threenew area codes earlier this year (an overlay in the northeast and athree-way split in the west), but the only places with new codeslooming on the horizon are:* Urban Utah, with the 801/385 split, which has been delayed (again)until at least 2005, and which may be postponed even farther.* Coastal Los Angeles County, with the 310/424 geographic split set toroll out with less than 6 months to elapse between the announcement ofthe official dates and the reassignment of the old prefixes. It's quitea challenge for businesses in what will be the 424 area code, becausethey don't want to print stationery or brochures listing 424 yet, butwithin 6 months calls to their old 310 number could go to a completelyunrelated subscriber in a different part of metro L.A. It's such a brilliant plan, I'm surprised that neither theFlorida nor Minnesota regulators had a hand in drafting it. * Riverside and San Bernardino, with the new, improved 909/951 splitbeing worked out. There were public hearings in mid-July. Roughlyspeaking, the part of 909 in Riverside County would change to 951,while the part in San Bernardino would keep 909, with the usual caveatthat the actual boundary will follow exchange boundaries rather thanthe county line.Pretty much everyone else in the U.S. is chugging merrily along withnumber pooling and other conservation measures pushing back the horizonfor any sort of area code relief.Of course, the NANPA NRUF projected exhaust dates do still showseveral area codes exhausting in 2004: IL-815, MS-601, IL-618, IN-812,KY-270, and IL-630, plus another 13 codes in 2005, and another 63codes through the year 2009.The date at which the NANP runs out of 3-digit area codes has beenprojected as far out as 2025, to as soon as 2005 or 2006. The currentlandscape looks like probably at least 15 to 20 years from now. Whenwe do go to longer numbers, though, there is talk of relaxing many ofthe restrictions on numbers, so that you might have a number like2130-0xxx-xxxx. The Industry Numbering Committee (INC) is also intenton eliminating all vestiges of 1+ dialing; you will always dial thearea code and number without the 1+ prefix, whether you are dialingthe same or a different area code, and whether the call is local ortoll (if that distinction still exists by then).For information on that angle, and some of the bizarre assumptionsunder which the INC is operating, check their web page:Items of interest include "D Digit Report" (plan to relax therestriction that the fourth digit of a NANP number be 2-9), and the tw
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