Milford chronicle., 1962-03-02
New Numbers
On Phones Due
By April 18th
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For Kent County:

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For Kent County:
On April Is, Direct D is t anc e
Dialing W / begin for customers
served by the 492 (Hartly) central
office.
All Number Calling" and Di-
rect Distance Dialing" will be in
troduced on April Is for customers
served by seven central offices.
The central offices and their g.
figure designations are: Avenue
284, Deerfield 335, Exeter SO 9 8,
Garden 422, Myrtle 697, Olive 653,
Redfield-4 becomes 734 and Red
field-6 becomes 736.
When ANC" starts there will be
no change in the method Of MAX
ing local calls in the free calling
area.
To reach a telephone outside
their local calling area but within
the State, the customer will dial
the special code figure 1" (one),
then dial the desired telephone
number. When the special code L"
is dialed, it alerts the central Of
flee switching equipment that the
call is going to telephone outside
the customers local calling area.
For example, if a Dover custom
er wanted to reach Olympia g.
2631 in Wilmington, he would dial
the special code II, then dial O,
L, 6, 2, 6, and l.
Ont of State Calls:
The United States is divided in
to some 100 numbering plan areas.
Each has its own three-f CUR e
Area Code number. And the three
figure Area Code is dialed to guide
the call to the proper area.
The Area Code for southeastern
Pennsylvania Gncluding Philadel-
phia) is 215, for New York City it's
PIP, and for San Francisco it's AS.
To reach SUtter 1898 in San
| Francisco, customer with Direct
Distance Dialing service will sim
ply dial the special code figure u,
then dial the Area Code for San
Francisco, AIS, then dial SU L
1898, in that order. . just eleven
spins of the dial IL, 415-SU L
399S).
Calls From New Castle County:
A New Castle County telephone
| ANC number in Kent and Sussex
Counties by dialing the desired Z
! figure number.
Current nationwide planning en-
visions the eventual changing of
all telephone exchanges to the new
seven-figure ANC" system, the To-
cal manager said.
Customers and company will
benefit from the advantages of the
new ANC' system which makes
possible faster and more accurate
dialing of calls.
Moore also pointed out that use
of seven figure numbers eliminates
confusion which sometimes arises
between the letter O" and the
figure Q" (zero), and between the
letter [" and the figure 1" (one)
In addition, he said, misunder-
standing and mispronunciation of
central office names will be avoid
ed
This type of confusion and err
rOr can consume valuable u s.
toner and operator time and need
lessly tie-up equipment needed to
handle the ever increasing num-
ber of calls" Moore said. Time
and equipment will be saved in
other operations as well, notably
in the processing of billing infor-
nation where it will no longer be
necessary to translate to figures
and in the preparation of reading
of out-of-tpwn call tickets made up
by operators"
Other advantages of the new
system include the simplification
and Standardization of directory
listings and eventually the simpli-
cation of telephone dials and num-
Der plates on which figures will be
larger.
And, someday, 'ANC" will per-
nit diafing to telephones any
where in the world. even to those
countries with different alphabets
than ours.
Complete information on all the
changes, All Number Cal IL n g'
and Direct Distance Dialing", will
be published we'll in advance of the
change-over, he added