Talk:Ten-digit dialing

message: This article made 10-digit dialing seem a lot more common than it is. For example, it refers to a time when 10-digit-dialing was unnessecary as "in this period," even though we are still in that period: 10-digit-dialing is limited some metro areas. Also, at the end of the article, it says that 10-digit-dialing is "becoming the norm" but is "not yet universally required." This tone suggests that the US using ten-digit-dialing with pockets not yet conforming. Just the opposite is true! Even many major metro areas don't use ten-digit-dialing. So I've done some re-wording to reflect this. -Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.102.253 20:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commonality of 10-digit dialing 

message: Well this comment was a while ago, but I think now it has become more common now? Not necessarily through overlays, but cell use. Now that people have cell phones they tend to keep their number even when moving across country. But even before that, I have always used 10 digits really since the split in my area[Seattle/'burbs '97], even when dialing in code numbers(we have no overlay). And everyone I know always gives out the area code when asked for a number without thought. My view maybe slanted by my Seattle upbringing with ol' M$ right down the street and all bringing in people from all over tho. 
-Audiovore (talk) 01:27, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commonality in 2011?

message: I don't know it if it a regional issue, but I have heard "11-digit dialing" far more often than "10-digit dialing". I believe the admittedly less common "11-digit dialing" should be reflected on this page and through a redirect page. I am going to be bold and do so, but I am putting it up for discussion here as well. -Rrius (talk) 00:32, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We should talk about both 10- and 11-digit dialing, but we should not equate them, as they are not always interchangeable. Doctor Whom (talk) 23:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand what you are saying, but when the first overlays were introduced in the Chicagoland area, it was referred to as "11-digit dialing" and has been since. A quick search shows the same in NYC and LA. It may not be accurate, but people use it. -Rrius (talk) 01:42, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I could gather from NANPA and localcallingguide.com, in those areas, it is or at least originally was 11-digit dialing (leading 1 required).  In other areas, like Maryland and Northern Virginia, 10- and 11-digit dialing have been kept separate ever since 10-digit dialing was introduced. Doctor Whom (talk) 22:33, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: We don't seem to have any article that discusses eight-digit dialing, which I remember from my youth in the 1970s and '80s: if you wanted to call a number in your area code but outside your city, you dialed 1 + the phone number without the area code. So back when Austin and San Antonio were both in area code 512, if you were in Austin and wanted to call someone in San Antonio, you dialed 1-234-5678 (or whatever the phone number was); you only had to dial 1-512-234-5678 if you were outside the 512 area code. There was no circumstance to my knowledge where you would have called 512-234-5678. Nowadays, the latter is what you have to call even if it's just across the street. Does 8-digit dialing exist at all in the U.S. or Canada anymore? —Mahāgaja · talk 19:13, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Eight-digit dialing is not a craft term, it is properly referred to as 1+7-digit dialing, just as "11-digit dialing" is 1+10-digit. Kbrose (talk) 23:47, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eight-digit dialing?