Curiosity poll #2. Local telephone calls.

[jenluckenbach]

In our area we have been dialing ALL 10 numbers for local calls. (area code + 7 digit number). Whereas it udes to be only the 7 digit number for local calls and only the area cod if OUT of your area. But what I do not know is if EVERYONE across the country needs to do that.

SO....How do you dial a LOCAL telephone number??

My part of PA......area code+number (10 digits)

[Husky_mom]

just the number............. unless its a cell phone then its whereever you are 044+area code+number...........

[k9krazee]

Just the number.

[Almita]

I have a habit at dialing the area code and then the seven-digit number so for me the second. I have to dial the area code or i will feel uncomfortable dialing it.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

We have to dial the area code and the number. :)

[BC_MoM]

Just the phone number. No area code. :)

[Karen]

1-area code-exchange-number.

[Toby's my baby]

Just the number. Except most cell phones you have to dial the area code then the number.

[Danegirl2208]

i tend to dial the area code too..just a habit

[Miss Z]

Just the number here :)

[I_luv_rusty]

Both area code and number here. :p

[jenluckenbach]

1-area code-exchange-number.
WOW! You have to dial a #1 for a LOCAL call? interesting.

[Felicia's Mom]

Just the 7 digit number here.

[zippy-kat]

If it's on the house phone, just the number.
If it's on my cell (sprint service), just the number.
If it's on my mom/dad/sis's cell (altel service), it depends; we are 5 min from the texas border and sometimes -even when dialing a local number- they'll pick up a texas tower and get the wrong person.

(I voted just the number.)

[chocolatepuppy]

area code and 7 digit number here

[BitsyNaceyDog]

We've had to dial the area code for local numbers for the past 10 years. I can hardly remember not having to.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Just the phone number, but it works either way.

[RedHedd]

Just the number on land lines - cell phones work with or without the area code for local numbers.

[catland]

Portland Oregon metro area - its all ten digits. New numbers get a new area code - its kind of cute, you can always tell older business signs because they only show 7 numbers instead of 10.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Area code+ phone number : 10 digits!

[smokey the elder]

Land line: just the 7 digit number.

My cell phone: area code and number (I don't need to dial "1"), though.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Recentally it changed to area code also. Which is a real pain because I always forget. I look up a phone # in the phone book, dial the number and close the phone book. But wait ! I forget the area code, so I've gotta look up the # all over again. :rolleyes:

If you want to call into town, you have to dial 1 first.

[Anita Cholaine]

I voted Just the phone number, but I actually ment to vote area code and phone number (a 1 digit area code and a 7 digit number)

[cali]

just the number, I have never heard of typing the area code for a local call lol

[.sarah]

We just type the local number :)


just the number, I have never heard of typing the area code for a local call lol
Me neither!

[jenluckenbach]

just the number, I have never heard of typing the area code for a local call lol
Oh yes, we have been doing this for quite a while now!! There are just SOOOOOOO many telephones in my area (land lines/cell phones/2nd lines in the same home....etc) that we needed MORE numbers. So a second area code now overlaps our original one. 610 and 484 telephone numbers for my area. So 610-123-4567 could live right next door to 484-123-4567. (LOL)

[trayi52]

Just the seven digit number here.

Willie

[Suki Wingy]

1-(area code) ###-####

[DJFyrewolf36]

Here, you don't have to dail the area code unless you're dailing outside of a cirtian area...as some numbers are concidered "long distance" even though they have the same area code.

[wolf_Q]

If it's local, no area code is required. Like DJFyrewolf said, some places within the same area code are considered long distance though so it is required then.

[cyber-sibes]

As of a few years ago, we have to dial the area code for local numbers too. And they changed a bunch of the Ohio area codes, I'm still trying to get used to that.

[PinkSunshine]

Just the # here in CA

[Edwina's Secretary]

The town my sister lived in requires only 5 digits be dialed for a call in the same town.... FOr example....if her number was 364-0288 and you were calling from the same town you only need to dial 4-0288!

It is a VERY small town. :D :rolleyes:

(And have you noticed...some call it "typing" a number and some call it "dialing" a number. :D :D )

[Randi]

Area code = 2 digits, no. = 6 digits. All over Denmark. :) Copenhagen used to be 01, but it has now changed to all kinds of two digit numbers - however, you cn usuall tell which area in Copenhagen a no. belongs to.

What I think is irritating, is that the Alarm no. has changed from 000 to 112.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

In Denver, we have to dial the area code + the number for local calls. In Iowa, you just needed the last 7 digits.