Not long ago, I noticed that one of my inbound Vonage lines was down. Then the other. Then I noticed on their site that 704 and 601 area codes were having problems with inbound calls. Then they added 504. A few minutes later it became 16 area codes, which is where it stands now. It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to get things going again.
I find it interesting in our world that so many people still don't include the area code on their signage. I'm driving through a strange town and see a number - 555-1212. How am I supposed to know the area code in order to dial them, either then or later?
In Charlotte, we have two area codes - 704 and 980. I think 980 is used pretty much exclusively by Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Microsoft (it's also on a growing number of cell phones, including my wife's) beause they needed large contiguous blocks of numbers. So it's perhaps understandable that people still use seven-digit numbers on their signs - though apparently they don't care about the "drive by" traffic.
