More on Cell Phones and Geography

Users are clinging to old area codes as they hold onto their first or first meaningful cell phone number. The New York Times (free reg required) takes this up in its Style and Fashion section this weekend.

“Younger people are not tied to a location anymore,” said Ritch Blasi, Cingular’s director of media relations. “They really are tied to their phones.”

I’m one of the few people I know who has a home and cell phone both in the same area code. Why? When I started my company in 2000 in Boston, I was lucky enough to get a 617 area code, just like the one assigned to my house. My home town area code, just five miles away change a few years back to create more land line numbers as the region grew.

In time will these numbers lose all assocation with geography? I think so.