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From: paul@devon.lns.pa.us (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Why 8-digit Numbers Are Impossible in North America
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Date: 15 Jan 90 04:14:14 GMT
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Daniel O'Callaghan at The University of Melbourne writes:
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| Cellular sevices could all be moved to say 229, allowing easy identification
| of a number as mobile.
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You mean all cellular phones, those in both the A and B systems, in
any given areacode should be 229-xxxx?  That allows no more than 10000
phones.  My "home" system covers less than 1/3 of the geography of the
717 areacode, yet has over 2500 subscribers alone.  I'll leave the
rest of the math to the reader.

- paul

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