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Old April 3rd 12, 07:18 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Adam H. Kerman Adam H. Kerman is offline
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Default Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes
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On Apr 2, 8:05*pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Note that our current ten-digit scheme allows for nearly 6.4 billion
phone numbers, which would be plenty for the 400 million people living
within the NANP if they weren't assigned so inefficiently.

It amazes me that dedicated outward trunks of a PBX get dialable
numbers even though no on ever calls them. They should get specially
identified numbers (eg in the 1nn-xxxx series) so they don't waste
addressable numbers.

Oh, c'mon. Then you'd need to program mechanical and electro-mechanical
devices to recognize phone numbers in different ways.

As there are almost always plenty of line numbers available for assignment,
what you suggest would have only negligible impact on the life of area
codes, and only in very limited areas.
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