Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Last Four Digits of Phone is '0000' Message-ID: <15360@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Dec 90 20:29:09 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 32 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 877, Message 3 of 12 Nathan Glasser writes: > Is there some particular reason why such numbers are perceived as > being rare? Well, for one thing, there can only be one per prefix :-) But another thing is that some telcos, including Pnac*Bell, use the 00XX series for CO test numbers. If you try to get a '0000' assignment, every excuse in the book will be trotted out to keep from giving it to you. "This is a special-case number and cannot be assigned." "This is a test number and you will receive many wrong numbers from telco personel." "We are not assigning numbers in the oh-thousands." "This is part of a DID assignment." "Blah, Blah, Blah." The truth of the matter is that if you rattle enough cages, and yank enough chains, you can get one of these. A local "celebrity" has always had '0000' assignments for his home number. Someone at Pac*Bell described the noises he made, all the way to the PUC, before his first one was issued. In addition, someone I know at Pac*Bell has one at home. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !