Word: overlaying
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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...
Proponents supports the overlay plan because of its convenience: No existing numbers would change...
...area codes will not provide an eternal solution to Boston's number crunch. With the increasing popularity of personal technology, more and more telephone numbers will be required to support new crops of pagers, computers and direct-dial extensions. According to NYNEX, with the overlay plan, new numbers can be implemented as needed...
However, the overlay plan is 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...