I am in the 760 area of CA.. which covers a large area. However, the population of the 760 area isn’t nearly as congested as the population of the entire Los Angeles area. L.A. is still on 10 digit dialing, My brother is in Orange, 10 digits. 760 has 11 digit dialing. They didn’t even give us the practice here of having 10 digit dialing first... just jumped right in there with 11. Its a conspiracy I tell ya!! Trying to keep the octagenarians off the phone, because they can’t remember to dial locally like they are dialing long distance.
and even tho i didn’t read all the posts all the way thru... I remember our first phone number being 5 digits, and you only had to dial the last 4 as all the numbers in town began with 8. Then came 7 digits... ours was FRontier x-xxxx... Frontier became just plain 37X=XXXX, then we got a new prefix in town.. and everyone north of a section got the new prefix.
And when area codes came in... Most of So Cal was 714... then it split and this area became 619, and it split again.. to 760. and my mother has had the same phone number for nearly 40 years.
There is probably more people in the DFW metroplex then there are in the entire 760 area.
11 digit dialing makes absolutely no sense.