I agree that it's idiotic that Verizon now forces me to punch in 3 extra digits for my area code when making local calls. How is a switch from analog to digital resulting in a system that is dumber, not smarter? And as another poster pointed out, the Verizon system knows when I've dialed just 7 digits for a local call since it offers up a recording. Why not just complete the local call instead of annoying me with a stupid recording? Any competent software programmer should be able to fix this in an hour or less. Are you listening Verizon?
