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Originally Posted by ken0042
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.
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Again, had this been done when 780 was introduced, we wouldn't even have this thread now. But Joe Blow pushed back. It would have been far simpler for the telcos to have just overlapped a second NPA, and gone with 10 digit dialing at the time.
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Originally Posted by ken0042
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.
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780/403/587 ARE area codes. Alberta ones. I would expect with number portability that you will see people moving 780 numbers down south and people with 403 numbers moving them north. Today there is a north south split. That won't last long.
As for your last paragraph, sorry, again absolutely false. I was in the industry, and at that time we KNEW that an NPA split wouldn't get us through more than a decade or so. I recall it to be 7-8 years window before we potentially had another NPA split scenario occurring. The internet had nothing to do with this. Lastly, as for fixing it once and foreall, it... just... doesn't.... work... that... way.
I dialled 4 digits when I grew up. Times change.