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Originally Posted by Shawnski
And NEITHER of those ideas aleviates 10 digit dialing Ken.
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I did read the rest of your comments, and I think I may not have gotten my point across.
I am
not opposed to 10 digit dialing. Calgary having 2 area codes or one- I know it was coming, I understand the reasons, and I really don't have an issue with 10 digit dialing.
It's having split area codes (780 and 403) combined with broad area codes (587) that I have an issue with; because they are no longer area codes. The whole point of an area code is to allow worldwide phone dialing, but keeping it simple in local areas. It took 10 years for 780 to fill up in Northern Alberta, with all of Alberta using this new code it will fill up in 5 years. So 10 years from now we will be using 5 area codes in Alberta; some of them with geographical boundries, some without.
Then in 20 years we have 9 area codes. Then we all have to switch to 5 digit area codes.
I'm just saying, fix it once, cause a bunch of grief, then don't have to fix it again. This all came about because 12 years ago the phone companies thought the Internet was going to make the phone obsolete. Turns out the Internet (and web enabled phones) actually helped make the phone more popular than before.