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."

ET Phone Home...

[Big Mark]

No, first you dial the country code. Yes, and then the area code. Now the city code... and now the local extension...

...

Fool! You dialled to KFC, not home!

Stupid alien.

It just won't sound the same...

[vought]

One-two-one-two-eight-six-seven-five-three-oh niyeeeeeiyne!

Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode ...

[JSkills]

... where Elaine gives some guy she meets her phone number with the new "646" area code. The guy's like "so how far away do you live?" and "so do I have to dial 1 first"? He eventually makes up an excuse to get away from her, just so he doesn't have to deal with the different area code issue.

Ok, mod me down now, that was pretty off topic. Sorry.

Re:Welcome to the club

[Alranor]

636/939 ??

And when people decide they don't like 2 separate area codes in the same town, are they going to build a large garbage wall down the middle and get The Who to play on it?? :)

Colonization

[Anonymous Coward]

I think colonize Mars is sooner than we through, 1 for Earth, 2 for Mars, ... And within a few year, we will need an extra digits for another star system. Hurrah for humanities.

One small step for our finger, one giant leap for humanities.

New Springfield

[freeweed]

Yeah, but I'm sure the folks in Olde Springfield get to keep the old 212 area code.

Re:And again US catches up with the rest of the wo

[NMerriam]

Why is whenever the US catches up with the rest of the world in phone technology it is considered "news"? We've been using 11 digit number in the UK for years.

Catch up? So if we used 22-digit dialing, the US would be "ahead" of the UK in telecommunications?

Re:Better Idea

[grub]

Use Telephony-DNS!

"Phone, dial Universe.Milky-Way.Earth.Canada.Ontario.Toronto.Ma in-Street.2871.apartment-832.Smith.Robert.Henry" That's much easier than having to remember 11 digits!

Somebody has to do it...

[JahToasted]

Marge: They must have must have made a mistake. We'll just go down to the phone company and straighten it out.

Homer: Which phone company?! There are hundreds of them! They all keep changing their names..

Marge: I think it's Quamquack.

Bart: No, I think it's Niagular.

Marge: No, last week they became Verdiquar.

Re:New Springfield

[ruiner13]

Even monekys can remember 10 digits. You're not dumber than a monkey, are you?
</simpsons>

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[guacamolefoo]

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Wonderful.

[DarkHelmet]

Oh great. Soon I'll have to dial an IPv6 number just to pay for phone sex...