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Originally Posted by 4X4
Ease up on the condescending tone, dude. All I'm saying is that with the millions of calls made everyday, it'd be a heck of alot easier to KNOW that the number you're calling is long distance, based on "area" code.
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Except that that is not feasable. Calling Carstairs from Calgary is a local call, iirc. However, Calgary to Olds is long distance. But, Carstairs to Olds is local. So how do you assign an area code that delineates what is the local calling area?
Area codes still cover geographical areas, they just got bigger than they used to be. The idea behind using an overlay and ten digit dialing makes perfect sense - why make people spend millions of dollars changing everything they have that indicates their phone number because their area code got split?
What does not make sense to me is the fact that Alberta actually has two new area codes reserved - 587 and 825. Why use one, and overlay it across the entire province, leaving the other dormant rather than implementing both, and overlaying one of those area codes with 403, and the other with 780? Then you at least maintain the rough geographical boundary that exists today.
OTOH, If you move from Calgary to Edmonton, you can keep your phone number, which is mighty convenient.
Tempest in a teapot, imo. We'll get used to it by September, and the world won't end as some fear.