Posting from one city but have the phone area code from a much further place

[RSully94]

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Cute dude, but should I be concerned that, for a city that is located in So Cal, that his area code for his phone number is for San Francisco?

[rvwnsd]

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Cute dude, but should I be concerned that, for a city that is located in So Cal, that his area code for his phone number is for San Francisco?

 

The area code has decreasing relevance in a mobile world. The emergence of national carriers renders the need to change one's number when moving obsolete. I would not be concerned.

[bobchitown]

The area code has decreasing relevance in a mobile world. The emergence of national carriers renders the need to change one's number when moving obsolete. I would not be concerned.

 

Nah. If I ever leave Chicago I'll keep the number I have now. No need to change anymore.

[+ deej]

Last time I moved I didn't change my number for the first several years, and then only did it to get rid of a persistent spammer.

 

It's a right royal pain to change your number, and then remember to change it in your profile for every online account you've got. (I just realized this week that AT&T has had the wrong number on one of my accounts since it changed two years ago.) Not to mention telling everyone you know that you've changed your number.

 

Of course this all applies only to cell phones but that tends to be all the youngsters have these days.

 

I wouldn't worry about it.

[bobchitown]

...but that tends to be all the youngsters have these days.

 

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

And oldsters as well. Haven't had a land line for 10 years.

[+ deej]

And oldsters as well. Haven't had a land line for 10 years.

 

Yeah, same here. But for us it's a change. For the guys we typically hire, it isn't. If they even know phones used to have wires they think it's quaint.

[instudiocity]

Of course this all applies only to cell phones but that tends to be all the youngsters have these days.

deej, I shall be 59 next month. I have used a cellphone exclusively for over 10 years. I even have my business toll-free ring through to my cell. It just makes more sense to carry my phone in my pocket and not be tied to a wire in my house.

 

But it's good to know 59 is a youngster!

[Kevin Slater]

Not to mention telling everyone you know that you've changed your number.

 

My favorite is the bulk text I get saying "Hey this is my new number" without mentioning, oh, his old number or a friggin' name to tell me whose new number it is.

 

Kevin Slater

[Mark Gordon]

Travelling in the US with a Canadian cell phone finally became affordable earlier this year, with my carrier introducing $5/day, call/text/data US roaming charges.

[Gar1eth]

But it seems to me that aside from the ease of texting another reason that another reason the younger generation prefers texting to talking is that there seems to be a slight/subtle delay on cell phones. I know if I have a long and involved conversation, I prefer doing it over a landline or even a good VOIP. Doing it over a cell phone seems more difficult somehow.

 

Gman

[rvwnsd]

But it seems to me that aside from the ease of texting another reason that another reason the younger generation prefers texting to talking is that there seems to be a slight/subtle delay on cell phones. I know if I have a long and involved conversation, I prefer doing it over a landline or even a good VOIP. Doing it over a cell phone seems more difficult somehow.

 

Gman

 

For starters, my 65 year old cousin teases me about still having a landline.

 

You are right about that delay, Gman. Thanks to the delay, you can never tell when someone is finished talking and end up talking over them.

[+ deej]

My favorite is the bulk text I get saying "Hey this is my new number" without mentioning, oh, his old number or a friggin' name to tell me whose new number it is.

 

Or the email sig announcing "please note my new email address" but the sig hasn't changed in five years or more. If it's someone you only hear from occasionally you end up looking up what you have on file every damn time because you can't remember whether you did it last time.

[+ Charlie]

The voice quality on landlines is still far superior to cellphones, especially for someone like me who talks fairly quickly, because there is usually a slight lagtime on other devices. A friend called me the other day from London on Skype, and we always seemed to be overlapping over one another.

[+ honcho]

The voice quality on landlines is still far superior to cellphones, especially for someone like me who talks fairly quickly, because there is usually a slight lagtime on other devices. A friend called me the other day from London on Skype, and we always seemed to be overlapping over one another.

 

I also prefer the clarity of land lines. Skype is tolerable, but I seem to have significant problems understanding folks on cell phones.

 

I still hear well enough that nobody's hinted I should leave any of the music ensembles I play in, and was recently hired to edit up a classical CD (from numerous takes).

[Daverwr]

I carry a cellphone with a Long Beach, CA area code, but live up north in San Jose. Sometimes I explain it, sometimes I don't. I'm getting ready to move and I don't anticipate getting a landline. One less expense.

[bobchitown]

Or the email sig announcing "please note my new email address" but the sig hasn't changed in five years or more. If it's someone you only hear from occasionally you end up looking up what you have on file every damn time because you can't remember whether you did it last time.

 

Or, the endless "please listen carefully as our menu options have changed."

 

Mobile lines have gotten much better and almost the entire business world has changed over to VOIP. I actually usually have my cell on WIFI calling. I don't need "symphony hall" quality for a phone call, whatever gets the job done, I guess.

[Kevin Slater]

Or, the endless "please listen carefully as our menu options have changed."

 

But I do like the new (at least to me) option that is popping up sometimes "To use numeric-only prompts, push five" or something similar. I hate making a call from outside and every time a truck passes by, hearing the voice say "I'm sorry, I didn't get that".

 

Kevin Slater

[Gar1eth]

I've always thought most voice recognition to be clunky. It's bad enough on landlines. And on my cellphones, I've had them continually not be able to understand what I've said. I almost always choose the numeric option if available. Occasionally there are problems with that too on cellphones. It's kike the tone doesn't last long enough for the computer to pick it up. Or sometimes the tone won't play when you press a number.

 

Gman

[+ deej]

Or, the endless "please listen carefully as our menu options have changed."

 

Yes! The airport shuttle service I use has been telling me that since I moved here in 2002 and their menu options haven't changed once in all that time.

 

It's kike the tone doesn't last long enough for the computer to pick it up. Or sometimes the tone won't play when you press a number.

 

Those systems don't listen for a tone. The tone is played for your benefit, not the machine's.