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Date: 14 Oct 2021 17:17:46 -0400
From: "John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
Subject: Re: Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
According to George Smith <geosmith@gmail.com>:
>Cut & Paste from a Dutchess County NY Press Release. The original release can
be found at
>
>
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYDUTCHESS/bulletins/2f77178
>
>Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
>
>Under FCC change, County residents and businesses
>in 845 and 914 must dial area code to make local calls
This is happening throughout New York in the 516, 607, and 716 areas as well
as nearly every other area code that still had 7 digit dialing. Chart here:
https://nationalnanpa.com/transition_to_10_digit_dialing_for_988/docs/NPAsRequiredtoTransitionto10DD.pdf
The reason is the FCC's ill-advised decision to make 988 a short code for
suicide crisis lines. The idea
of the crisis line is reasonable, but the sensible approach would have been to
add it to the underused 211
code for essential community services rather than screwing up the North
American numbering plan.
In a few places such as North Dakota, they kept 7 digit dialing (for now) by
moving people out of an
existing 988 exchange so there is no confusion between 988-XXXX and 988. They
could do because
there were only 33 active numbers in the 988 exchange in ND.
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Message-ID: <20211015140759.GA23146@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:07:59 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 05:17:46PM -0400, John R Levine wrote:
> According to George Smith <geosmith@gmail.com>:
>> Cut & Paste from a Dutchess County NY Press Release. The original release
can be found at
>>
>> https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYDUTCHESS/bulletins/2f77178
>>
>> Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
>
> This is happening throughout New York in the 516, 607, and 716 areas
> as well as nearly every other area code that still had 7 digit
> dialing. Chart here:
>
>
https://nationalnanpa.com/transition_to_10_digit_dialing_for_988/docs/NPAsRequiredtoTransitionto10DD.pdf
>
> The reason is the FCC's ill-advised decision to make 988 a short
> code for suicide crisis lines. The idea of the crisis line is
> reasonable, but the sensible approach would have been to add it to
> the underused 211 code for essential community services rather than
> screwing up the North American numbering plan.
>
> In a few places such as North Dakota, they kept 7 digit dialing (for
> now) by moving people out of an existing 988 exchange so there is no
> confusion between 988-XXXX and 988. They could do so because there
> were only 33 active numbers in the 988 exchange in ND.
AFAICT, there's something going on behind the scenes. I'd guess the
"New" FCC is a bit gun-shy after the antics we saw during a previous
administration. The "211" code, although a more logical choice, might
require extensive retraining of the civil servants already employed to
do "211" work ... and ghod help any politician who has to explain a
suicide after a "211" operator turned out to be out of his/her depth
and out of luck finding a competent crisis counselor.
Bill
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