Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 21 May 91 16:46:01 +22323328 From: irvin@northstar105.dartmouth.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 9's in Telephone Numbers Reply-To: irvin@northstar.dartmouth.edu 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 388, Message 3 of 12 Lines: 43 In TELECOM Digest V11 #384, David Gast writes: as well as others: [discussion about 9xxx in telephone numbers deleted] One more thing on this topic (I have a feeling Pat's going to close this one out soon): My phone number (since the dawn of me having telephone service in my name) has always ended in 6466. Call me superstitious, call me strange but I got kind of attached to these four little numbers over the years. Well, when I moved to NH a few months ago I requested my old 6466 buddy from the phone co. The lady said that she'd check to see if it was available in my exchange. (I guess I should point out that I moved into a *very* small town.) Well, after holding for a while, she came back and told me that only the 9000 block of numbers was available in my exchange (can you imagine only one block of numbers). I immediately was concerned about having a 9xxx number because I had always thought of them as payphone numbers. But not ever having to make collect calls home, it didn't seem to be a problem. The biggest problem was having to give up my old number. Anyway (back to the point), my whole town (about 250 people) have 9xxx numbers and NET could have given them any other block of 1000 numbers since 0000-8999 are completely unused in the exchange. So, I guess it is no longer a big deal. What is really strange (off the subject -- sorry Pat), is that any of these numbers gets a recording (in fact any unused number in the area) that says, "The number you have reached X-X-X X-X-X-X is being checked for trouble, please try your call again later." This was a problem when I was giving a friend my new number, but I gave him the wrong number, and he tried to reach me for over a week, continually getting "...checked for trouble...". He finally called DA and discovered he had the wrong number. Tim Irvin