Re: WKTQ (was tv on radio)

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

That's part of it, Roger  ;-)  But I believe the reason was that the 
cellphone companies felt it would be a "stigma" against them if their 
numbers were all forced to be in a new area code.   The logic, if you can 
call it that, being that people wouldn't want to learn the new area code 
and therefore would look to get cellphones in the old area code if at all 
possible.

It's "political logic"...which rarely has the customers' interests at heart.
- Aaron

At 10:31 PM 1/25/2002 -0500, Roger Kirk wrote:
>Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> > At the time the new area codes were implemented, FCC rules
> > explicitly prohibited such restrictions on overlay area codes.
>
>What was the reasoning behind not allowing overlays?  It seems
>to be the logical thing to do.
>
>Oh, I get it - if it's logical, the FCC won't have any part of it?!
>
>Roger Kirk

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