Do any of you have to dial 10 digits for local phone calls?

[Charger_Fan]

Just wondering.
We're told that as of this June, the greater Salt Lake City area will be fresh out of unused 7-digit phone numbers. Couldn't be because everyone & their DOG (probably literally ) has a cell phone now days, could it? Yeesh.
Anyhoo, now we're gonna have to dial 801-xxx-xxxx or 385-xxx-xxxx for each local phone call...if long distance, you put a 1 in front of that.

How 'bout youz guyz?

[bordin34]

In north jersey we have been doing that for more than 5 years.

[bull]

Jeez, we've been doing that for probably 15 years or more.

[69_500]

Seems pretty dumb to me, you would think it would make more sense to just make a new area code.

[A383Wing]

Jeez, we've been doing that for probably 15 years or more.

Yup....same here...

Bryan

[Drache]

I know BC will be starting it soon... 

[sick dawg]

In the Washington, D.C. area it's been that way for about 20 years at least.

[69charger2002]

you guys and your overpopulated bad weather areas.   
no worries about that where i live . just pretty days and chargers to drive.. good ol LOUSYana

[Dodge Don]

Yes.

No big deal.

[PocketThunder]

yep, been doing that for 7 years or so.

Paul

"I hate polls"           

Grant have you ever thought about doing stand up comedy on Monday nights?   

[Troy]

Yes, we do.

Seems pretty dumb to me, you would think it would make more sense to just make a new area code.

I think that's exactly what they are doing (hence the 10 digits).

Troy

[69bronzeT5]

Here we have the 7 digits. ###-####. In Vancouver they have 10 digits. ###-###-####

[400/6/PAC]

We have three area codes in Dallas.
I forgot what is was like to dial only 7 #s

[Charger_Fan]

Well, I didn't think that me in my "flyover state" would be in any sort of telephone pioneering situation, but I certainly didn't think that some of you guys had already been doing this for 20 years!   Looks like I'll be getting used to dialing 10 digits real soon.

Grant have you ever thought about doing stand up comedy on Monday nights?   

I might, but I'm not good at dodging hastily hurtled objects when under a spotlight.  

[Brock Samson]

 
  that's funny,..
we been dialing ten digits for a decade or so now... it's a PITA at first but you do get used to it...
you gotta remember where the three extra digits apply..

[moparstuart]

it's all the dam cell phones

[THE COLONEL]

we have been doing it for years, and I think most are.

[Charger_Fan]

  that's funny,..
we been dialing ten digits for a decade or so now... it's a PITA at first but you do get used to it...
you gotta remember where the three extra digits apply..

According to the proposed plan I saw yesterday, the affected area here will use overlapping area codes. The people who already have the current 801 area code, will remain using that number...but any new numbers in that same area will use the 385 number. Just funky, I'm-a-thinkin'.

[Old Moparz]

Just wondering.
We're told that as of this June, the greater Salt Lake City area will be fresh out of unused 7-digit phone numbers. Couldn't be because everyone & their DOG (probably literally ) has a cell phone now days, could it? Yeesh.
Anyhoo, now we're gonna have to dial 801-xxx-xxxx or 385-xxx-xxxx for each local phone call...if long distance, you put a 1 in front of that.

How 'bout youz guyz?

I never saw any area that used so many x's in a phone number before. Should be an easy one to remember though.

[A383Wing]

it's all the dam cell phones

Yes...and FAX machines....

Bryan   

[Winged 1]

 
Seattle area, been doing it for along time. Only need 7#s if you call with in the same area code..
Eric

[Ponch ®]

  that's funny,..
we been dialing ten digits for a decade or so now... it's a PITA at first but you do get used to it...
you gotta remember where the three extra digits apply..

According to the proposed plan I saw yesterday, the affected area here will use overlapping area codes. The people who already have the current 801 area code, will remain using that number...but any new numbers in that same area will use the 385 number. Just funky, I'm-a-thinkin'.

theyre about to start doing that in SoCal with the 310/424 codes.

[PocketThunder]

it's all the dam cell phones

Yes...and FAX machines....

Bryan   

And Global Warming!!!!! 

[RDR-838]

DFW. Yup.

[bull]

Just wondering.
We're told that as of this June, the greater Salt Lake City area will be fresh out of unused 7-digit phone numbers. Couldn't be because everyone & their DOG (probably literally ) has a cell phone now days, could it? Yeesh.
Anyhoo, now we're gonna have to dial 801-xxx-xxxx or 385-xxx-xxxx for each local phone call...if long distance, you put a 1 in front of that.

How 'bout youz guyz?

I never saw any area that used so many x's in a phone number before. Should be an easy one to remember though.

Just in case we can't figure out how many more numbers he has to dial after the area code.

[rav440]

724 here we used to be 412 but now thats just alleghany county pittsburgh pa. . no big deal

[drifter69]

My number is puff,puff, couple more pieces of wood and puff,puff,puff.

[miller]

we have 10 digits, but if you are calling someone within your area code you don't have to use the first 3...

[dodgecharger-fan]

We started doing that a number of years ago in Southern Ontario.

It was a real treat for a while, because not only did they start requiring 10 digits, they also compressed an area code down into a specific geographical area designated by postal code.
So, someone with a 416 area code would get a new number in the 905 area code because of their location. The exchanges helped in organizing a lot of this, but not in every single case.
That frees up a 416 number, but then uses up a 905 number - which is a larger geographical area and is, for the most part, the suburbs of Toronto... and beyond.
But there was a lot of dialling twice until you figured out that a number had been changed.

Now.. there are new area codes that overlap 905. They could have avoided all the headache and just did that in the first place, no?

Even more brilliant.... a call within the 905 area code isn't always local. and a call from 416 to 905 (or the other way) can be local or long distance.
The places you can call toll free actually expanded - which is nice - the challenge is figuring it all out. A lot of cell phone providers up here (and some land line providers) will take your 10 digit dial and if it's a long distance call will announce that you need to dial 1 but then put your call through anyway with additional fee. That's great service, but it's one that shouldn't be necessary.

[Brock Samson]

oh yeah,.. the one... 

[defiance]

Anybody else remember 4-digit dialing?  I actually grew up able to 4-digit.  Backwoods nowhere in AR.  Think that probably stopped about 20 years ago.  Now I live in Little Rock and it's been 10-digit since I moved here, no idea how long it's been here.

[Charger_Fan]

Anybody else remember 4-digit dialing? 

YES! (damn, I'm old)
I lived in a small northern Arizona farm town until I was 12. We were able to use 4 digits to dial anyone in our town, and a neighboring town until the year before we moved away. I remember my Dad constantly having to hang up & re-dial the other three digits...and he made sure everyone else in the house knew it each time too.

[Old Moparz]

Anybody else remember 4-digit dialing? 

YES! (damn, I'm old)
I lived in a small northern Arizona farm town until I was 12. We were able to use 4 digits to dial anyone in our town, and a neighboring town until the year before we moved away. I remember my Dad constantly having to hang up & re-dial the other three digits...and he made sure everyone else in the house knew it each time too.

Always 7 digits for me, but you reminded me of all the annoying TV commercials when I was a kid that had phone numbers in the ad. They scream out the ad, tell you to call, & announce the phone number with the first 2 digits being letters.

Like......

"To get your free & useless gift, you must call before midnight tonight..........Call Murry Hill 6-3500 right now!..........That's Murry Hill 6-3500!"  (MU6-3500) I can still hear it in my head.   

[Charger_Fan]

Anybody else remember 4-digit dialing? 

YES! (damn, I'm old)
I lived in a small northern Arizona farm town until I was 12. We were able to use 4 digits to dial anyone in our town, and a neighboring town until the year before we moved away. I remember my Dad constantly having to hang up & re-dial the other three digits...and he made sure everyone else in the house knew it each time too.

Always 7 digits for me, but you reminded me of all the annoying TV commercials when I was a kid that had phone numbers in the ad. They scream out the ad, tell you to call, & announce the phone number with the first 2 digits being letters.

Like......

"To get your free & useless gift, you must call before midnight tonight..........Call Murry Hill 6-3500 right now!..........That's Murry Hill 6-3500!"  (MU6-3500) I can still hear it in my head.   

I vaguely remember some of those. I guess I'm lucky that I don't still have them burned in my memory.

BTW, that sig pic is hilarious! I bet it wasn't much of a fight after that.

[Plumcrazy]

724 here we used to be 412 but now thats just alleghany county pittsburgh pa. . no big deal

We started dialing ten numbers here when we got switched to 724 also, that was quite a while ago.