Area codes

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How long are the available pool of area codes expected to last?

What are the projected long term solutions? Four-digit area codes or four-digit exchanges?

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How long is the pool of available. . . .

And

What are the proposed. . . .

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TRY

http://www.nanpa.com/

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You might also want to look at LincMad’s site:

Current estimates indicate that some time around the year 2025 to 2035, or possibly as early as 2005 to 2007, the current system of ten-digit telephone numbers will reach its capacity, and we will then need to expand to longer numbers.

Several proposals are being discussed for the specifics of longer numbers. It is important to reach a decision many years before the plan is put into place, in order that the necessary preparations can be performed as part of the routine maintenance on the telephone network. We can’t change the numbering plan architecture overnight; for discussion of some of the issues involved, see “Why Not 8-digit Phone Numbers?” on this web site.

He suggests twelve-digit phone numbers: four-digit area code and four-digit exchange code.

[Twelve-digit phone numbers] would expand the numbering capacity of the North American Numbering Plan by a factor of 100, which should allow ample room to assign a telephone number to every person, computer, fax machine, pet, and household appliance.

There is also good info, and a “code clock” at Areacode Info.

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And the source of that quote was http://www.lincmad.com/future.html.

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And the source of that quote was http://www.lincmad.com/future.html.