[188838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Mon Apr 18 10:07:05 2016
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In a message written on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:49:37AM +0100, tim@pelican.=
org wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does anyone have a good pointer to the history of how /=
why US mobile ended up in the same numbering plan as fixed-line?
The other answers address the history here better than I ever good, but
I wanted to point out one example I hadn't seen mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_917
917 was originally a mobile only area code overlay in New York City.
For reasons that are unclear to me, after that experiement it was
decided that the US would never do that again.
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