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From: ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp)
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Subject: Re: New Telephone Numbers for Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 14:01:44 GMT
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dolf@idca.tds.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:

> Last weekend (on Sunday morning 3 March 1991), Amsterdam (in The
> Netherlands) has had their six digit numbers changed into seven digit
> numbers by prefixing the old number with a 6.

Well, not really. The 74XXXX exchange can still be called with and
without the 6. I would say it is at least a remarkable coincedence
that the PTT happens to have a lot of their lines on there (and KLM
rents 747 747).


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