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Making calls on campus to another student is wonderfully easy. You never have to dial more than five digits, and since everyone’s phone number begins with 3, you don't even have to remember all five. Thanks to the arcane workings of the Harvard Student Telephone Office, the change to 10-digit dialing within the Boston area this Monday probably won't affect you at all. But for those occasional outside calls to Tommy's that we do make, is dialing 10 digits really that...
...digit dialing would cause a variety of minor nuisances, but none of the arguments that are often raised against it are convincing. Certainly, dialing 10 digits instead of seven would take a bit more time and slightly increase the chance that one would make a mistake in dialing. This complaint notwithstanding, the critics who warn of repetitive motion injury due to the additional finger movement have yet to experience the taxing finger-crunching of Pine...
...most plausible rationale for objecting to 10-digit dialing is that it would cause confusion about how to dial a specific number and how much one would be charged for a given call. This new dialing system, however, is surprisingly tolerant of common mistakes: adding a one before the area code would not result in an additional charge, and forgetting to dial the area code would trigger a recorded message informing the caller of the error. The remaining fault —complicated local dialing plans and non-geographically specific area codes—are representative of systemic problems within...
People might be annoyed at having to dial 10-digits to call their neighbor, but this system is far superior to the alternative of having the boundaries between area codes shift, in order to make room for additional seven-digit numbers...
After today, those who call numbers without dialing an area code first will receive a pre-recorded message saying, "To complete your call, you must dial all 10 digits, including the area code of the number you are calling. Please redial using the complete 10-digit number...