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."

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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.