At 11:58 AM -0700 11/5/06, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Nov 05, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Joe Huber wrote:
At 11:47 AM -0600 11/5/06, Craig A. Finseth wrote:
You are, of course, aware that the US is moving to a mixed 10/11 digit
phone number system? That some specialized numbers have already been
assigned and are in use in the 11-digit format? That in a couple of
years, you'll start hearing about this for people's home/mobile/work
numbers?
I'd like to hear more about this...I couldn't find any mention of
it via Google.
Do you have a URL?
BTW I assume you're talking about more than just the need to use 1
preceding a 10 ditig long distance call, which has been the case
since ...forever. :-)
11 digit dialing is very common already in areas where phone number
density has resulted in split area codes
It used to be the case where for a long distance call that was not
international you could just use the 10 digit and the leading 1 (for
north america) was assumed
That seems to no longer be the case where I am in Canada
Is that all Craig was alluding to? That you need to dial a 1 prior to
a 10 digit phone number? Then the original poster's plan to always
store a 10 digit number for any US number should work just fine.
I live in the SF Bay area and we commonly dial 1+10 since there are
half a dozen area codes for the immediate vicinity.
It seemed to me that Craig was suggesting that the actual phone
number (exclusive of the country code) might be growing to 11 digits.
That would be news to me, and I'd like to learn more if it's true.
Regards,
Joe Huber
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