Re: US Telephone Number Type

On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:

> Also, due to the problem of keeping area codes segregated in large
> growing population centers,
> there is strong talk about allowing overlapping area codes.
> Dialing locally will require 11
> digits instead of the usual 7.
>

around here every local call is 10 digits due to ovelapping area
codes (been this way for over 10 years now.) why would you need to
dial 1 first for a local call? and how would this make a phone
number format different if stored in a canonical form already?

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