{"id":1540,"date":"2001-12-13T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2001-12-13T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2001-12-13T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2001-12-13T15:52:41","slug":"code_breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/13\/code_breakers.html","title":{"rendered":"Code-breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FCC is considering allowing states to designate area codes just for cell phones and pagers<\/a>. Given the realities of present phone switching, the idea of phone codes that have to designate physical areas makes little sense to me, and the continued burgeoning of pager and cell phone numbers is driving locations like Southern California into an ever-increasing balkanization of tiny areas, or else locations like Denver into area code overlays.<\/p>\n

(A side note. I’ve got no problem with overlays. They’ve worked fine here with 303 and 720, and requiring 10-digit dialing for everything is no more annoying than the 11-digit dialing required for folks in places like SoCal to call anywhere but across the street. I don’t make that many phone calls across the street.)<\/p>\n

Mobile phone companies have objected for years to the idea of separate area codes for their devices, feeling that this makes them somehow “second class.” That makes no sense to me, but that’s true for a lot of things. I think the real reason is that it will make it more difficult for those companies to charge differential rates for where cell phone customers call from, or are called. Technically, it will still be possible, but practically speaking, it will make it more difficult for them to claim that people should understand why there’s a (chargeable) difference between my phone tying into the AT&T cell system in LA vs. doing so in Denver or Boston.<\/p>\n

I expect to have a new cell phone, and new cell phone number, within the next week. I wouldn’t mind having one that designates that it’s a cell phone. In some ways, that would actually make my life easier.<\/p>\n

(Via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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