01-24-15 12:56 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Time Zones Was: Older

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml>  On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Ed Vance wrote to Daryl Stout:

 EV> I just got a notice in the latest Telephone bill that another Area
 EV> Code will be added to this area and except for 911 and 411 and a
 EV> few other 3 numbered phone numbers everyone will have to dial ten
 EV> digits even to talk to the neighbor who has a phone number with the
 EV> same Area Code after some date in February 2015.

 ml> we've been doing that for a few years now...

 EV> When I read about the proposal to have another Area Code for this
 EV> area I wrote the Board studying the proposal and suggested to them
 EV> to have ALL of the Cell Phone Companies in my Area Code be given
 EV> the new Area Code, then there would be pleanty of free numbers for
 EV> them to give new Businesses and Residential Customers who use Wired
 EV> Telephones.

 ml> that's not really the problem... it is that the exchanges are
 ml> having to be duplicated in more areas because they are running
 ml> out of numbers... the areacodes keep the exchanges separated...
 ml> i've always use ten digits on cell phones... especially since
 ml> they automatically add the leading 1 if necessary for a LD
 ml> call...
Howdy! Mark,

My way of thinking (it may be wrong) is the vast amount of Cell Phone
Companies are given blocks of numbers to assign to their customers.

Those blocks are numbers in the Area Code that Wired Telephones also
get numbers from the Telephone Company (Residential and Businesses).

By assigning the newer Area Code to the Cellular Phone Companies, all
that would be changed is the Area Code for Cell Phones, and that would
free up several blocks of numbers in the original Area Code that the
Telephone Company could assign to new Residential or Business Customers
therefore ending the lack of numbers that the Telephone Company would
be able to give out.

I really have no idea how many Cell Phone Numbers are in use today,
but I see children of Elementery School Age using Cell Phones, as well
as lots of Teens and Adults, and that's not counting the Cell Phones
that businesses use.

There are a lot of Cell Phone being used and simply giving the Cell
Phone Customers a different Area Code would free up a lot of space in
the original Area Code for the area.

 EV> And the only people in this Area Code who wanted to call someone
 EV> who was on a Cell Phone would have to dial Ten Digits only for
 EV> those phone numbers, and everyone with Wired Telephones could still
 EV> dial Seven numbers to call Telephone Exchanges in the Local Dialing
 EV> Area, and only have to dial "Our" Area Code for calls to Towns
 EV> quite a distance from our area.

 ml> the problem here is that, like in my area, there are identical
 ml> numbers in ajoining areacodes... consider this... you dial just
 ml> seven digits and you're near the areacode boundry... which one
 ml> of those two duplicated numbers are you trying to reach? i used
 ml> to get phone calls all the time from folks trying to set up
 ml> appointments for work on their cars... if they had used all ten
 ml> digits, they would not have been calling the wrong number and
 ml> they would not have been causing me to have more expensive
 ml> phone bills... i finally set my voice mail recording to say
 ml> something like "if you are calling about work on your car, hang
 ml> up and use the proper areacode when you dial the number
 ml> otherwise, leave me a message and i'll get back to you as soon
 ml> as possible!" ;)

Still, if the Original Customers in the Area Code who are using Wired
Service just wanted to call someone in the Original Area Code 7 Digits
should be fine.

The Cellular Customers have to dial a Area Code regardless of what
Area Code they are calling, thats the way Cell Service is set up AFAIK.


 EV> I suppose they didn't listen to me.

 EV> I tried.

 ml> unfortunately, it couldn't work like that... it won't be long
 ml> before we start running out of areacodes, too... country codes
 ml> won't really help since the ACs are duplicated within a
 ml> country... they will have to eventually come up with something
 ml> else like they did back in the day... only this time, perhaps
 ml> they should also consider having a planetary prefix as well so
 ml> we don't have to deal with this again when we do finally start
 ml> populating other ""rocks"" in space ;) ;) ;)

I remember the time where I dialed 6 numbers to call a phone in my city
and I remember the change over to 7 digits but I could still call a lot
of the numbers using 6 digits even after the supposed ending of the
period where either way the numbers could be dialed.

Then later sections of the States were given Area Codes, and still later
DDD Direct Distant Dialing was offered.

Progress???????????
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