01-24-15 12:56 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Time Zones Was: Older   
      
    ml> @MSGID: <54C4264D.1239.windowsb@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    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???????????   
   Ask GE, its their most important product.   
      
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