Last week I called a telephone number. Until then for years is was always Line or Skype VOIP calls.

 

I guess with cell and VoIP replacing landline the ole paper phone book will also fade into obscurity.

Locally our phone book is just the old "yellow pages" business and things like that.

 

Do you have to dial 10 digits to call the next-door neighbor?

Yup. When they added a second area code in our part of the state we had to start using 10 digit dialing. Happened decades ago.

 

By the way, @SamR, I don’t have to use 10-digit dialing because I control my own dial plan. I can do 7-digit dialing, and any sort of special shortcuts I might want to create So long as there is some logic to the numbering.

I love being the phone company.