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Committee votes ITL on bill directing planning for new New Hampshire overlay area code; DOE says NANPA controls timing
Summary
Lawmakers heard HB 708 on planning for an additional overlay area code. The New Hampshire Department of Energy told the committee it cannot reserve area codes; NANPA (the North American Numbering Plan Administrator) controls exhaust planning. The committee voted in executive session to recommend ITL (inexpedient to legislate) by a 14–1 roll call.
Representative Timothy Horrigan (D‑Durham) introduced HB 708, a bill that would direct the Department of Energy (DOE) to begin planning for the introduction of an additional overlay area code for New Hampshire.
Horrigan said conservation measures have delayed exhaustion of the 603 area code but noted projections still show eventual exhaust in the next decade unless carriers or planners take action. He said the current central-office code inventory for New Hampshire is limited and that previous conservation work has pushed the projected "exhaust" date outward.
DOE testimony: Megan Stone, the department's…
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