SF>The Los Angeles area for the first twenty years of Direct Distance 
ialling
  >had two area codes, 213 for Los Angeles County and 714 for Orange County
  >and the Inland Empire.  The mushrooming growth of services using telephone
  >lines such as pagers, fax machines, and modems, along with the population
  >growth caused the area codes to split and split again starting in 1984 
th
Maybe MCI's one number idea is part of the solution.  If each 
individual only had one number which would serve his home, person, car,
fax, pager, etc. it would reduce a lot of number use.
Charles
 * 1st 2.00 ~ Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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