Reader comments: 385 area code = 10-digit dialing
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Kristen | 3:10 p.m. April 5, 2008
I've talked to several senior citizens who are completely flummoxed by this. How can they say it will not be confusing to change the way we've made calls for decades? Dial 10 numbers to call next door? We are used to area codes splitting, but not overlays. Bad call.
marilyn | 1:21 p.m. April 8, 2008
I totally agree with Kristen. Who's bright idea was this?
Mindy | 12:41 p.m. April 30, 2008
An overlay sounds definitely better than asking people who have had the same telephone number for decades to suddenly switch to a new area code and phone number. Switching numbers would be awful for all of those people outside of Salt Lake County.
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Mindy | 12:41 p.m. April 30, 2008
Also, with cell phones these days, people have area codes that are not necessarily 801, so we are using 10 digits anyway.
Idiotic | 1:20 p.m. June 13, 2008
This overlay plan just seems idiotic. People have been asked to change their numbers for decades with the influx of more and more people in areas. They changed from 801 to 435 and survived. People in other states do it more frequently than us. I think that this state is just a bunch of whiners that need to get with the times and get over themselves and move on with the rest of the world. People will keep moving into this state and things will continue to get more and more crowded and things like this will have to change. Today it is the area code, tomorrow who knows.
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