Steve,
Now I can understand your frustration. As for the area codes, I used to program in two or three a day somedays as they run out of phone numbers and have to change area codes so they can use the same ones. There are places in L.A. that it is a long distance call across the street now. But they shouldn't be changing your number without asking you. Just the area code change doesn't affect the 7 digit directory number.
The wireless works really great in some areas and others it doesn't here. They have repeaters on poles all over Chico and you need to be within 300' of one of them I think it is. Here on the block I live in we have a really weird situation. Some days a cell phone will work and other days nothing will. When some of the police who are friends of mine stop by to visit the first thing they do is call dispatch and tell them they are at Ron's and if they have a call to call on the phone. Go down the street a block or so and they don't seem to have any problems. My neighbor bought 4 cell phones and threw them away because he was mad before he talked to me and I told him about this block. He then got a new one and tried to call me from my gate which is about 50' feet and it wouldn't work. He drove down the street a couple of blocks and it worked fine. So he threw away 4 probably good phones because he didn't know about this area.
Ron
