> Due to telephone number exhaustion, they're asking everybody to upgrade
> to IPv6 - er, I mean, they're changing the numbering plan.

You'd think they could just come up with a system that didn't require a 
"fix" every few years.

> Currently, all area codes start with 0. But that means you cannot assign
> anybody a telephone number that starts with 0, see? So they're making it
> so you always have to dial the area code. That way, we know it's the
> area code because it's at the beginning of the number, not because it
> starts with a 0.

Seems like only a temporary fix.

> Rather than, say, add new area codes or something, which would only
> affect people assigned these new numbers.

Their previous response to exchanges running out of numbers was to move 
them on to 02x area codes with 8 digit phone numbers - but obviously you 
can only have 10 of them, and I guess they are all used now. Maybe they 
need to introduce 7 digit phone numbers with a 0xxx area code for 
medium-large cities. What about 04xx, 05xx, 06xx numbers, are they used 
for anything?

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