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Ok, so we'll have to dial 631 in front of all our local numbers, we already have to dial 1-516 and now we'll have to dial 1-934 as well.
Older seniors are the ones who are going to be confused by all of this. I'll have to reprogram my parents house phone directory as well as my mother's cellphone, besides my house phone and cell. And make sure hubby who is cellphone-challenged (!) gets his changed along with my kids.
Schools will have to reprogram their automated emergency call lists to parents. I'm sure there are other groups who will have to do the same. Just added work.
Life was simpler when everyone had just one house phone, land line that is!
I liked it better when there were fewer area codes, 212 for all of nyc, 516 for the island, 914 for upstate, and 201 for jersey. Also 7 digit dialing was easier.
Ok, so we'll have to dial 631 in front of all our local numbers, we already have to dial 1-516 and now we'll have to dial 1-934 as well.
Older seniors are the ones who are going to be confused by all of this. I'll have to reprogram my parents house phone directory as well as my mother's cellphone, besides my house phone and cell. And make sure hubby who is cellphone-challenged (!) gets his changed along with my kids.
Schools will have to reprogram their automated emergency call lists to parents. I'm sure there are other groups who will have to do the same. Just added work.
Life was simpler when everyone had just one house phone, land line that is!
I agree with this here post. They should just let the numbers run out so as not to inconvenience lazy employees and senile old bats.
I liked it better when there were fewer area codes, 212 for all of nyc, 516 for the island, 914 for upstate, and 201 for jersey. Also 7 digit dialing was easier.
Unfortunately, with the amount of phone numbers that each household now has, it is becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the demand for phone numbers. Think of even just 20 years ago. Most people had 1 phone number per house, 2 if you were lucky. Now a days, a family of 4 is going to have an average of 5 phone numbers per house hold (4 cells and 1 landline). The area code only has so many variables that it can give out (I read somewhere that phone numbers cannot start with 0 or 1 (due to operator or the phone thinking you will be calling outside of area code, so there is already an eighth of the numbers gone). Then the phone number can't start with digits such as 900, 800, 911, 311, etc.
Most of the rest of the country already dials 10 or 11 digits for every phone call. It's only Long Island that is behind the times on this.
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