The FCC licenses the creation of new area codes explicitly for pagers and cellphones. It’s been a couple of years since I gave out my landline number (my landline’s hooked up to a DSL modem and a fax machine, not a phone). I want my phone number associated with me, not my premises. Wireless providers are worried that if cellphones get distinctive area-codes that they’ll somehow end up second-class, that people who receive calls from cellphones will be less likely to take them or something. To my mind, just the reverse is true. Calls that originate on cellphones are almost certainly not commercial solicitations, but rather person-to-person calls from an actual human being. LinkDiscuss