Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: the Watcher Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: What Are All the x11/x00 Numbers For? Message-ID: <6103@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Apr 90 09:57:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM Lines: 43 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 234, Message 4 of 4 Presumably the question of "what are all the x11/x00 numbers for" has come up before, and if my site could ftp (perhaps this should be "if I knew how to ftp from my site"), I could get them from the proper archives. of x11, I know that: 911 Emergency 811 Pac*Bell billing/service numbers 611 Repair 411 Information 011 International I do remember some archaic mention to the effect that 211 was once used for something, but it escapes me now. notice that 111, 211, 311, 511 and 711 aren't used, but they haven't been assigned either as prefixes or area codes. 511 would be an ideal replacement for the "555-1212" used to get information in another area code (ie, 1-617-511 for eastern MA information), while 711 could be used to get the location of the nearest convenience store (ie. 711 would get you a recorded message telling you where the nearest 7-11 to where you were calling from was, pause so you could hang up, then ring you through to that 7-11 [regionally this would be circle-K or equivalent].) Admittedly, a strange idea. of x00: 900 Fixed-charge dial-in "services" 800 Toll-free 700 Reprogrammable destination (???) The rest of them ([0-6]00) aren't used for anything (we know about). The last discussion I remember about 700 numbers (some years ago, someplace other than the Digest) was to the effect that it would connect you from anywhere in the continental US to whatever number it was last programmed to (ie. travelling salesman/phoneco employee/etc gets to omaha, programs in the number to his hotel room to his assigned 700 number, you call the 700 number and get that person wherever they are). Any idea what these things may be intended for? Perhaps a nationwide cellular service is in the works ... and what about x10 numbers? someone here mentioned 710. watcher@darkside.com ?_tW_?