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In the USA, the option has been available for a long time: the whole country (and Canada for a couple bucks more a month) has been my local calling area. Upon
by ctdonath 12y ago
In the USA, the option has been available for a long time: the whole country (and Canada for a couple bucks more a month) has been my local calling area.
Upon moving 1000 miles, it took 8 years of badgering to convince me to switch our phone numbers to a local area code so it wouldn't sound like we lived somewhere else (endless "hey, isn't that a New York number?" when near Atlanta).
I haven't dialed a "local number" for nearly a decade. 10 digits is my norm - when I can't just poke one button and say "call __________".
Yet I remember the days when the entire town was just 4 rotary-dial digits away...
- bobdvb 12y agoWell, I am in Europe so our telco business is very different but when I moved last time I didn't want to leave my number behind (knowing I was going somewhere I couldn't port it) so I ported the number to a VoIP provider and my new cable provider gave me another (local) number that I don't really use in my broadband bundle. The VoIP number is the one everyone knows and because no one here pays differently for local vs national cost isn't an issue. You could have two numbers and just forward or get an IP+Analogur phone like mine (Siemens Gigaset).