Posted by John in La on August 07, 2013 at 17:59:32 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Phone Area Codes posted by NY 986 on August 07, 2013 at 14:43:42:
Our state had 2 area codes when I was a kid. They now have 5. Every time they just split 1 area and made 2 areas out of it. They never moved the original lines just split a area in half and made 2 areas. I do not live close enough to a line to have it affect long distance. The big town next to me now has a different area code but it was long distance even before they changed the area code.
I do live right on a parish (county to you) line. I live in one parish but my phone line comes from the next parish over. Since it is long distance to call from one parish to the other it made every phone call long distance. I could call 50 miles to the east but to call my kids school; electric company; post office; parish government office; all about 5 to 10 miles to my west were long distance.
What I did to combat it was to sign up for circle dialing. It is a service my phone company came up with just for this problem. It cost a few extra dollars a month but allowed me to call within a mileage circle of my house in any direction without it being long distance. The bigger the circle you chose the more it cost.
After years of complaining to the parish government my many people in my same situation the government forced the phone company to make all phone calls inside the parish you live in a local call no matter where your phone line came from.
This all happened long before cell phones. I now use a cell phone as I do not even have a landline phone any more.
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