"He said he was calling from Miranshah in North Waziristan and the telephone number used to make the call carried an areacode common to the Waziristan tribal area and Bannu, the adjoining district in the North West Frontier Province, " the paper said.
So Nynex, hardly the most popular local telephone company in America, knew it was in for a scrap when it recently unveiled a plan to deprive some Manhattanites of their treasured 212 area code--arguably the only local telephonecode that is recognised from Tokyo to Tomsk.