[Info-vax] [OT] US telephone numbers, was: Re: OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-05-25, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:21:32 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <o5s399-qj2.ln1 at mint-hp.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>> o - Google wanted my phone number as part of their 2 step authorisation
>>>     process.  While there was no evidence that they were using that for
>>>     marketing purposes, who was to say that I wouldn't get pestered to
>>>     death at some point in the future for letting them have that
>>>     information?
>> 
>>    1-800-555-1212
>
> Sorry I'm not in the US.  What does that number do?
>

Freephone directory enquiries for the US.

However, the 555 area code is also reserved for use by fictional programs
set in the US, so that real customer phone numbers are not used by mistake.

I've just had a look around and see Wikipedia has a writeup on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_%28telephone_number%29

We are not much better in the UK, BTW. :-)

One of the Doctor Who S4 episodes included a fictional mobile number and
Ofcom reported over 2000 attempts to call the number.

Simon.

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