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Do they reuse the phone numbers after a while? Will I get phone calls for previous users of that same number?
by emilv 13y ago
Do they reuse the phone numbers after a while? Will I get phone calls for previous users of that same number?
- UVB-76 13y agoI would assume that's the only viable business model for this kind of thing.
- Perseids 13y agoDo phone numbers really cost anything in the US? Or is there an upper limit to the length of a phone number? Otherwise, they can just allocate a million which would be enough to have a grace period of at least a year until phone numbers would be reused.
- bpeebles 13y agoAll phone numbers in the US (actually, North America and some Caribbean islands) are the form AAA-XXX-YYYY, and there's a finite number of AAA (or area codes) that have been issued so far. And some types of numbers are not possible, mostly for historic reasons. I'm not sure how much a block of numbers actually cost in the US, but they're not free. I know a company I worked for tried hard to compress the range of numbers they had so they could give back part of an exchange to save money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#Numbering_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#N...
- charles2013 13y agoPerhaps they provide extensions for the numbers to avoid this issue?