# North American telephone area codes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 27, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-american-telephone-area-codes/926588 "2020-11-27T13:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 55
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-american-telephone-area-codes/926588/55 "2020-12-13T05:05:40Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I’m in the US, still have seven digit dialing. No talk that I know of of making it ten. Since my parents’ rural county was assigned a new area code in the late 1990s, they’ve had to dial eleven digits (1-555-555-5555) even just to call across the street. It sucks. We still have seven-digit dialing where I live. > [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > My university had the same thing - all numbers began with “area code+3 digits”, so there were four unique numbers for each phone line, and internally, you could call any university number by dialling the last four digits… The municipal government of the rather large city in which I live has that. Very convenient. I can call city hall, the police department, parks and rec, coworkers in my court, etc. just by picking up the phone and dialing four digits. This thread may be of interest, too: [When will all the area codes run out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-all-the-area-codes-run-out/417797) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-american-telephone-area-codes/926588)._