[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Madman

My problem is that how will I know when to dial 1 before the 587??

I could have a 587 in Southern Alberta and be trying to call someone else with a 587, but they are from Uber North Alberta.

Why not add three or four new area codes then? Split the province into thirds and North/Central/South Rural each get an area code, then Edmonton/Red Deer/Calgary each get one as well.

It's totally useless that an AREA code is no longer tied to area.

Okay, a few points:
1) You'd probably know to dial 1 becasue you'd be calling across the province. If you don't know where the number you're calling is, then big deal, serioulsy how often do you not know the location of the person you're calling?

2) who cares if its called an area code? It's all just sematics at this point anyway.

I don't like the new system either, but I'm sure there are a lot of folks who went through the pros and cons of a bunch of ways of doing it, and this one is the least disruptive. Or does it seem more liekly, that everyone on CP (who doesn't work in the telecome business, sorry firefly) is smarter than people who get paid to work on these things?