10 digit dialing...

cowgurly02 · 08-08-2008, 12:56 PM

is driving me CRAZY!!! LOL! Alberta just recently moved to this...now you have to dial the area code before even local numbers. If you don't, this recording comes and tells you that you have to, and then you connect. Starting in September you have to do it or the call won't go through at all.

I am soooo used to not having to dial it, and it's so much quicker not too LOL I swear if I hear that recording one my time I am going to scream!

Does anywhere else have this 10 digit dialing now too??

faroutfax · 08-08-2008, 12:59 PM

Ontario has had it for years

It isn't that bad once you get used to it.

cowgurly02 · 08-08-2008, 01:00 PM

Really? Wow I had no idea Ontario had it!

I have to go add the area code in all my cell phone contacts numbers now...LOL!

horse_freak001 · 08-08-2008, 01:02 PM

Haha, BC had 10 digit calling a while ago (about 5 years give or take a year). It was so weird to dial out the area code at first, but now it's weird NOT dialing it.

BC has a bunch or area codes now. We have 604 for the lower mainland, 250 for the interior/ Island, and 778 for cell phones.

AQHA1972 · 08-08-2008, 01:02 PM

Wow, the states have been doing that for some time now. Some cities, like mine, even have up to three area codes for one city.

idlewild · 08-08-2008, 01:09 PM

I just add the area code anyway here in Colorado now. Back in my home town it's so small you don't have to. But where I am living now on the front range there are three different area codes all smashed together so if you don't who knows who you'll end up calling.

Xiphias · 08-08-2008, 01:10 PM

LOL, you will get used to it, our state switched over to that a few years back...and we have two area codes in this tiny state! It took me a while to get used to it.....but I feel you pain!

Cathy

cowgurly02 · 08-08-2008, 01:10 PM

I didn't know BC did that either LOL Or the States! Wow are we ever behind...

CITIES have up to 3 different area codes?? Wow...all of Alberta just has 2, and we just got the second one a few years ago LOL

Jensters · 08-08-2008, 03:50 PM

Pennsylvania has had that for like ten years haha I am so used to it now

Horsefeathers3 · 08-08-2008, 03:54 PM

My phone service provider makes me enter the area code before every call, too. I used to hate it, but now I do the area code even if I'm using my house phone and it's not necessary. Trust me, you'll get used to it!

08-08-2008, 12:56 PM	#1
cowgurly02 Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 9,716 Images: 237 Blog Entries: 381	10 digit dialing... is driving me CRAZY!!! LOL! Alberta just recently moved to this...now you have to dial the area code before even local numbers. If you don't, this recording comes and tells you that you have to, and then you connect. Starting in September you have to do it or the call won't go through at all. I am soooo used to not having to dial it, and it's so much quicker not too LOL I swear if I hear that recording one my time I am going to scream! Does anywhere else have this 10 digit dialing now too?? __________________ "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." - Zoolander

08-08-2008, 12:59 PM	#2
faroutfax Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Southern Ontario Posts: 4,849 Images: 510 Blog Entries: 16	Ontario has had it for years It isn't that bad once you get used to it. __________________ One man's wrong lead is another man's counter canter.

08-08-2008, 01:00 PM	#3
cowgurly02 Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 9,716 Images: 237 Blog Entries: 381	Really? Wow I had no idea Ontario had it! I have to go add the area code in all my cell phone contacts numbers now...LOL! __________________ "I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is." - Zoolander

08-08-2008, 01:09 PM	#6
idlewild Senior Member+ Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Northern Colorado Posts: 4,134 Images: 336 Blog Entries: 123	I just add the area code anyway here in Colorado now. Back in my home town it's so small you don't have to. But where I am living now on the front range there are three different area codes all smashed together so if you don't who knows who you'll end up calling. __________________ iDance, iSplash, iJump. iEvent Honorary Aussie, Oi! Feliche + Idlewild = Serial Eventers Idlewild and I Love BODIE! are M&M I was on HGS when we made 2 and 3 million posts

08-08-2008, 01:10 PM	#7
Xiphias Senior Member+ Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Maryland, horse country USA Posts: 16,506 Images: 627 Blog Entries: 29	LOL, you will get used to it, our state switched over to that a few years back...and we have two area codes in this tiny state! It took me a while to get used to it.....but I feel you pain! Cathy __________________ Member COL Club- hand over the Oil of Olay and nobody gets hurt! http://www.freewebs.com/xiphias21034/ I was on HGS the day we made 2 million posts and 3 million posts

08-08-2008, 01:02 PM	#4
horse_freak001 Senior Member+ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 1,178 Images: 28 Blog Entries: 13	Haha, BC had 10 digit calling a while ago (about 5 years give or take a year). It was so weird to dial out the area code at first, but now it's weird NOT dialing it. BC has a bunch or area codes now. We have 604 for the lower mainland, 250 for the interior/ Island, and 778 for cell phones.

08-08-2008, 01:02 PM	#5
AQHA1972 Senior Member+ Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 2,599	Wow, the states have been doing that for some time now. Some cities, like mine, even have up to three area codes for one city.

08-08-2008, 03:50 PM	#9
Jensters Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: PA <3 Posts: 367 Images: 59	Pennsylvania has had that for like ten years haha I am so used to it now __________________ No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.

08-08-2008, 03:54 PM	#10
Horsefeathers3 Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South Florida Posts: 2,165 Images: 51	My phone service provider makes me enter the area code before every call, too. I used to hate it, but now I do the area code even if I'm using my house phone and it's not necessary. Trust me, you'll get used to it! __________________ -Chelsea Secretary of the Player Fan Club

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