11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 21, 2003 @01:23AM from the isn't-that-a-pain dept.

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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Confused? by OldStash · 2003-01-21 01:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

How can prefixing a '1' to every phone number increase the amount of combinations?

Wouldn't it make more sense just to add a couple of new numbers?
For example:

One, two, three, four, flig, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nelp, ten.