Now I've got one land line with two numbers assigned to it, DSL that I can use for Skype, and five cell phones between us - seven phone numbers and an IP address for one house.įrom people when I give them my cell number. I used to have two physical lines, one for voice and one for modem, but DSL has made that obsolete. Then they introduced the second number option with the double-ring (which I currently have). I'm old enough to remember when every house had exactly one phone number. We've got three land-line exchanges in our territory and more cell phone exchanges than I can think of at the moment. That meant something when all phones were hard-wired, but cell phones changed all of that. Now there are a lot of regions with overlapping area codes because one won't support the territory. Once upon a time, area code meant strictly that. We essentially have a ten digit phone number now. Two of my daughters are out of state but I only need to use their seven digit number to contact them from either my cell or my land line.īut other than that technical aspect of it, you're correct. Cell phones assume the 1 if the number is ten digits and assume local area code if it's seven. ![]() The 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx format is only necessary for land lines. That's because there are a lot of people who are much smarter than me and have already tackled this issue. I'll have to do the search on "selective router 911." I'm going to bet it tells me how my 9-11 call is routed to a local emergency response organization based on where I am rather than to the emergency organization in my "home" area-code. I haven't kept up on that front so I am certainly out of date on what's happening in that area. ![]() Given how so many cell phones have the ability to be located by GPS now and how so many websites or apps on my iPhone want to use that information to locate me it seems 9-11 services should be adapting to do the same now if they aren't already. Because they ran fiber through a bunch of existing oil pipelines. Remember Wil-Tell? "Glass Encased in Steel" was their tag line I think. I am a computer, networking and telecom geek All that used to be really important when we were negotiating contracts with our long-distance carriers.
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