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Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 07:40:40 GMT
From: elm@cs.berkeley.edu (ethan miller)
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Subject: Re: 800-800 Prefix
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In article <telecom11.382.7@eecs.nwu.edu> Carl Moore (VLD/VMB)
<cmoore@brl.mil> writes:

> I just found a motel chain's toll free reservation number listed as
> 800-800-xxxx.  This is the first N0X/N1X prefix I have seen listed for
> 800 "area".  (But in 900, there was a 900-410-NASA many years ago.)

I called a car rental company today at 800-800-XXXX.  Is this the only
case of an area code which has an exchange of the same number (ie, the
only area code which has xyz-xyz-XXXX numbers)?  Who does 800-800
belong to?


ethan miller--cs grad student   elm@cs.berkeley.edu
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