On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:34:23 GMT, John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com>
wrote:
: On 1 Dec 2006 08:53:54 -0800, "jrees@jrees.net" <jrees@jrees.net> wrote
: in <1164992034.388989.110120@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>:
:
: >I am looking for a GSM phone for my wife, who currently is using a
: >Nokia 6010, but wants to switch now that Cingular is requiring 10 digit
: >phone numbers to be keyed in.
:
: Cingular still works fine with 7 digit number here in Northern
: California. What problem are you seeing?

Well, I guess the problem he's seeing is that he's not in northern California.
The inconvenient truth is that the Federal Government (you remember them?)
issued a rule a few years ago that if anybody in a calling area is required to
use all ten digits, then everybody in that calling area has to be required to
do so. The idea was to make it less unpalatable to have to accept a phone
number in one of the new "overlay" area codes that keep getting created in
large metropolitan areas.

Enjoy it while you can, John. You may not have to use 10-digit numbers now,
but your time will come.

Bob