Re: CHAT: postcodes
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 23, 2002, 0:07 |
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, John Cowan wrote:
> The worst continuing annoyance of the U.S. phone system is that
> to call any given number, one must dial either a 7-digit number or 1 followed
> by a 10-digit number, and if one works the other doesn't. Why
> give us an annoying "You do not need to dial 1 + area code to reah
> that number" recording instead of just connecting the call?
> (This is not true of mobiles, however.)
Even worse, in Vancouver now you have to dial the area code even for a
local call, if I were to call someone across the street it would still be
604-525-9999 or whatever...
---ferko
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