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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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....11 digit dialing coming to the city of New York for all phone calls, including inner city calls.
Why would they need to do that? Just a few payphones for the drug dealers in the inner city....
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
You forget that the USA is a reality unto itself, and that something isn't "news" in "the USA" unless it affects "the USA." Just because something has happened somewhere else about a million years ago, Americans won't realise it until it happens in New York or LA, or at least on "the mainland." Bunch of navel-gazing self-abusers, IMHO.
You are now beginning to get a hint of an idea about how the rest of the world feels. About vuirtually EVERYTHING. You DO realise that Baghdad is virtually the oldest city in the world, don't you?
That was classic intercourse!