According to George Smith <geosmith@gmail.com>:
Cut & Paste from a Dutchess County NY Press Release. The original release can be found at
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYDUTCHESS/bulletins/2f77178
Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
This is happening throughout New York in the 516, 607, and 716 areas
as well as nearly every other area code that still had 7 digit
dialing. Chart here:
https://nationalnanpa.com/transition_to_10_digit_dialing_for_988/docs/NPAsRequiredtoTransitionto10DD.pdf
The reason is the FCC's ill-advised decision to make 988 a short
code for suicide crisis lines. The idea of the crisis line is
reasonable, but the sensible approach would have been to add it to
the underused 211 code for essential community services rather than
screwing up the North American numbering plan.
In a few places such as North Dakota, they kept 7 digit dialing (for
now) by moving people out of an existing 988 exchange so there is no confusion between 988-XXXX and 988. They could do so because there
were only 33 active numbers in the 988 exchange in ND.
Cut & Paste from a Dutchess County NY Press Release. The original release can be found at
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NYDUTCHESS/bulletins/2f77178
Ten-Digit Phone Dialing Takes Effect Oct. 24th
Under FCC change, County residents and businesses
in 845 and 914 must dial area code to make local calls
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