(No, I don’t mean EFnet.) 
Damn all you Orange County California mofo’s and your attachment to having a phone number for every gadget in your pocket, the 2+ phone lines at home, fax machine, and even one for your DSL line. Already a lack of phone numbers only ~10 years after the last split, which created the 949 spawn. Damn the over growing suburban population.
So yeah, today in the mail along with my netflix, I received a notice of public hearings for 714 area code change from Cingular. But your not in the 714 anymore you say? I am at heart. My mobile phone is a 714 area code number. I lived in the 714 for about 23 years. Wireless Number Portability says I can keep my number which I have over the last 4 years from moving away from the area. The proposed changes may affect that however, at which time I will be pissed off that I have been paying into a system, which was supposed to guarantee my number for as long as I pay for it. Isn’t that a contract?
My out of state status means that I am obviously unable to attend the public meetings, (unless SCIF happens to ship me out that way for my workers compensation during the same time as the hearings), so I submitted my comments below via the California Public Utilities Commission website.
I no longer live in California, however, I chose to keep my mobile phone number which is within the 714 area code, I believe it has an Anaheim exchange through Cingular Wireless, which I purchased when living in Huntington Beach.
Ideally #4 cuts the county in a more logical fashion.
But I would prefer the overlay, so that I am guaranteed to keep my phone number.
I have been paying added fees each month on my wireless bill, which are supposed to offset the costs of number portability. What’s the point of having number portability, if what is being proposed is going to take that number away from me.
714.642.xxxx
After viewing the overlaypdf, and two proposed split plans #4pdf, and #6pdf, I would prefer the overlay.
Since it was not completely obvious to me I would have to guess that if the split is approved area #A will keep 714, and area #B will get some new number.
[tags]714, orange county, area code change, area code, California Public Utilities Commission, rant, split, overlay[/tags]
