On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:26:46PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > Chris Benson wrote: > > The people in uk.telecom were suggesting a one-off-this-will-hurt-but- > > it'll-only-happen-once change where the entire country moved to > > (XXXX) YYYY-ZZZZ > > format > > Wouldn't that be rather wasteful? After all, population is distributed > unevenly. You have some cities with lots of inhabitants, and then you have > rural areas with a much smaller population density. Does that mean that in > rural areas, you (a) have an area code covering a *huge* area, or (b) waste > lots of phone numbers? As I see, it's one or the other. What's wrong with (a)? It already happens in (eg) the Highlands, and IIRC Northern Ireland has just one area code now for the entire province.* And if you have a big enough address space - and twelve digits is very big indeed - what's wrong with (b)? * - BTW, does that mean that all calls within NI are now charged at local rate? Can belfast.pm enlighten me on this? -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important **
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