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.   
      
   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.    
      
   that's not really the problem... it is that the exchanges are having to be   
   duplicated in more areas because they are running out of numbers... the   
   areacodes keep the exchanges separated... i've always use ten digits on cell   
   phones... especially since they automatically add the leading 1 if necessary   
   for a LD call...   
      
    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.   
      
   the problem here is that, like in my area, there are identical numbers in   
   ajoining areacodes... consider this... you dial just seven digits and you're   
   near the areacode boundry... which one of those two duplicated numbers are you   
   trying to reach? i used to get phone calls all the time from folks trying to   
   set up appointments for work on their cars... if they had used all ten digits,   
   they would not have been calling the wrong number and they would not have been   
   causing me to have more expensive phone bills... i finally set my voice mail   
   recording to say something like "if you are calling about work on your car,   
   hang up and use the proper areacode when you dial the number otherwise, leave   
   me a message and i'll get back to you as soon as possible!" ;)   
      
    EV> I suppose they didn't listen to me.   
      
    EV> I tried.   
      
   unfortunately, it couldn't work like that... it won't be long before we start   
   running out of areacodes, too... country codes won't really help since the ACs   
   are duplicated within a country... they will have to eventually come up with   
   something else like they did back in the day... only this time, perhaps they   
   should also consider having a planetary prefix as well so we don't have to   
   deal with this again when we do finally start populating other ""rocks"" in   
   space ;) ;) ;)    
      
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