Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!apple!netcom!onymouse@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John DeBert) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NNX-0000 Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 89 19:43:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: NetCom Services - Public Access Unix System (408) 997-9175 guest Lines: 32 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 239, message 10 of 11 In article , lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard. edu (Kent Borg) says: > X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 234, message 2 of 3 > I recently noticed that the pizza place across from my laundromat has > a phone number which ends with 4 zeros. > I don't think I have seen this before. In fact, I remember as a kid > (I was a strange kid) thinking that those numbers would probably be > reserved for phoning the exchange itself, but I never remember seeing > 0000--at least until yesterday. > Why are NNX-0000 (I hope I have the N's and X's straight) numbers so > rare? Because there's only one per prefix? 0000 is the last number of the old mechanical CO's. Every try pulse-dialing four zero's? I suppose that it was reserved because it took so long to dial. I recall that it once had a purpose, such as a test number or something. That was a long time ago, though. It may begin to see use if an area is running out of numbers, though. JJD onymouse@netcom.UUCP > Kent ("I have clean clothes again") Borg > kent@lloyd.uucp > or > ...!hscfvax!lloyd!kent