Overlay: Phone companies to comply with IUB ruling
IUB ruling prompts area code changes in Central Iowa with 641 added for Mason City and Ottumwa while Des Moines and Ames keep 515. Cedar Rapids and other areas face 10 digit dialing and reprogramming costs, with business groups wary of loss of 319 identity and extra printing costs.
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Kelli Biebenbach
U.S. Cellular
Cedar Rapids
Renee Miller
Aging Services
Miller
US West
McLeodusa
IUB
Lynn Gipple
Des Moines
Ames
Mason City
Ottumwa
Iowa
Iowa City
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids Area
Chamber of Commerce
Ron Corbett
Chamber
Corbett
Cole Chase
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Utilities Board seeks public input on 319 area code in Eastern Iowa
The Iowa Utilities Board starts 10 public meetings in Waterloo and other cities to gather comment on the future of the 319 area code. Meetings run today through May with times and venues listed, and writings comments accepted through June 26 to the board in Des Moines.
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Iowa Utilities Board
Iowa
Waterloo
Great Museum
Mary Jostin Halli
Clarke College
Dubuque
Maple St
Des Moines
State
Czech Technology in Motion Exhibit Opens in Iowa
The National Czech and Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids hosts a Czech Technology in Motion exhibit opening this weekend with Czech cars motorcycles bicycles and locomotives on loan from private collectors. A 5:30 p.m. fundraising dinner precedes a 2 p.m. Sunday lecture by Ivan Dubovicky on Czech American identity and immigration. The exhibit runs through Oct 1 in the museum gallery.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
National
Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
Roundhouse
Ivan Dubovicky
Czech Republic
Dubovicky
United States
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