The California Public Utilities Commission administrative law jud...
The California Public Utilities Commission administrative law judge who originally supported the geographic split the PUC adopted in April to relieve the depleted southern California 760 area code said she had reconsidered and now supports an all-service overlay. The…
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PUC had agreed to reconsider the decision to split the populous northernmost part of San Diego County off from 760 into a new 442 area code. The PUC will vote Oct. 16 on whether to rescind the split and order an all-service overlay with 10-digit local dialing. ALJ Maribeth Bushey said she had originally recommended the split because it would preserve seven-digit local dialing across the sprawling remainder of the code, which comprises about 8 percent of the state’s total land area. Bushey said she changed her mind after reviewing the protests from the local Chambers of Commerce of the six San Diego suburbs to be split off, plus the commander of the U.S. Marine base at Camp Pendleton, and roughly 6,000 e-mails from residents and businesses in opposition to a split. She said the strident and voluminous opposition to a split that would force thousands upon thousands of residents and businesses to change their phone numbers indicated the split was the wrong decision.