11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York

Traicovn writes "The NY Times (free registration, yadda yadda) is carrying an article about 11 digit dialing coming to the city of New York for all phone calls, including inner city calls. Yes, that means even to dial across the street you will have to dial 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. Eventually as the phone number system fills up because of more people having cellphones/pager/fax and a home/office phone line we may see this happening in more cities across the nation or the NANPA may have to intervene by making phone numbers longer in general."

Comments

+4 Interesting?!?!

[ACNiel]

This post shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem, the internet, or IP.

Not to mention that his solution goes from solving a problem of 11 digit dialing by implimenting 12 digit dialing (and that is assuming IPv4). IPv6 will be even worse.

Now, combine his idea with IPv6 and some sort of AlphaNumeric dns type system, and then you have a headache, but somthing more along the lines of a working idea.

The fact that this got modded to a 4 shows that all the /. regulars are out of jobs deserve to be out of jobs for a reason, or haven't even got to high school yet.

Re:Welcome to the club

[guacamolefoo]

In Massachussetts, we've had 11-digit dialing required for at least a year.

You forget that New York is a reality unto itself, and that something isn't "news" in "the City" unless it affects "the City." Just because something has happened somewhere else about a million years ago, New Yorkers won't realize it until it happens in Manhattan, or at least on "the Island." Bunch of navel-gazing self-abusers, IMHO.

I expect the following call from one of my NYC friends any day now: "Hey! Dijoos muddafuckas know dat weez got to dial 11 numbas to make a cawl now?"

GF.