From: johnl@iecc.com   
      
   XPost: nyc.transit   
      
   >IMHO, for rural areas that are facing exhaustion, the correct solution   
   >is a split, retaining 7D dialing afterward.  Overlays should only be   
   >used for area codes that have already been reduced to a single rate   
   >center and are still facing exhaustion, of which there are maybe a dozen   
   >actual or likely cases in the entire NANP.   
      
   The borough of Queens in NYC has six rate centers, the Bronx has three,   
   Brooklyn and Staten Island each have two.  Split them all by rate center?   
   Get real.   
      
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