Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 20 May 91 21:49:59 -0700 From: David Gast Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 9's in Telephone Numbers Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 384, Message 7 of 11 Lines: 18 The practice of not using 9xxx as telephone numbers was not nation-wide. My parents' phone number assigned in 1959 was 99x-9xxx. A friend of mine had the number 99x-99xx. (And one of the x's in each number was a zero). Although I did not call collect frequently, I never had any trouble when I did call collect. Other people also had 9xxx numbers. Incidentally, 99x were very popular exchanges; for all practical purposes they have been completely assigned for years. Incidentally, one of the exchanges was 991. At that time, I believe, exchanges ending in 1 were uncommon. The old Bell system was not so uniform in its policies and procedures as we are frequently like to reminisce about. David