AREA CODE SPLITTING; 661 STARTS OPERATION TODAY IN A.V. REGION.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents can start getting used to a new area code. Effective today, the 805 area code splits in half, with Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, , Kern County and the Antelope Valley switching from 805 to 661, but a six-month grace period lets callers use either one until August. ``This is our `get acquainted' period,'' said GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) spokeswoman Julia Wilson Julia Wilson is a rower from Australia, who has won Rowing World Championships gold medals in the Eight and Four for her native country in 2001 and she picked up a silver medal in the Eight at the 2002 World Championship. . ``It's what we call `permissive dialing.' You can dial either for the next six months.'' Approved by the California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [1] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, in November 1997, 661 is the 24th area code in California. Ventura County and most of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. counties keeps 805, but could face another area code split in three or
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Telephone company officials had told customers in November to expect public meetings on the second 805 split to start in May, but now think they are a year or two away. The second split could occur in 2002 or 2003, officials said. Although the 805 change will have the greatest impact locally, corners of Kings, Monterey, Fresno and Tulare counties also will be affected. The eastern portion of Kern County that was in the 760 area code stays 760. In addition to dialing either 805 or 661, customers in the two area codes can call between the areas without using the code for the next six months. While people in the Antelope Valley still will be able to call Ventura County numbers for the next six months without dialing an area code, phone company officials advise them to use the code. ``It's a good idea to start practicing,'' Wilson said. People also should remember to change their speed dialers and computer modems, she added. Beginning Aug. 14, outside callers who dial 805 trying to reach Antelope Valley numbers will get a recorded message reminding them of the new 661 area code. They then will have to redial In telecommunication, an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the user to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number dialed at that instrument. . The reminder message will end Nov. 13. The area code change does not automatically apply to cellular telephones. GTE advises cell phone users to check with their service company to see whether their area code will change. ``It differs,'' Wilson said. ``It depends on how the service provider has the hookup hookup, n in the Trager method of therapy, the practitioner enters into a meditative state along with the patient, which allows him or her to work more intuitively and to feel subtle changes in the patient's movement and tissue texture. to the cell phone.'' The area code split will not increase the cost of phone calls, officials said. Call distance and time determine the cost of a call. |
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