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From: bill@gauss.eedsp.gatech.edu (bill)
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Subject: Re: Is This a New Record For Number Reassignment?
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Date: 2 Jan 91 18:25:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 4, Message 10 of 12


I just recently got a new unlisted phone number.  The order-taker gave
me the "new" number while I waited.  After we hung up, I tried the
number (even though it would be a week before it was to be connected).
I was surprised to be greeted by a real, live female voice when I
called.  I asked the female voice if she had just gotten new phone
service and she replied that no, she'd had that number for a few
years.  I told her that I had just ordered a "new" number and asked
her if her number was NXX-ABCD.  She said it yes it is.  So I called
Ma Bell right back and asked "What the hey?"  They looked up my "new"
number again and told me that it was really NXX-ACBD.  A simple matter
of transposed numbers made by a harried order-taker.

As yet, I have gotten one wrong number in about two weeks of service.
I don't know how long the number cooled off first, but it was not in
the phone database on Compuserve so maybe it was out of commission for
a while.


Bill Berbenich      Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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