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Date: Thu, 23 May 91 02:33 GMT
From: "Sander J. Rabinowitz" <0003829147@mcimail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: 800-800 Prefix
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Ethan Miller made the following inquiry in Telecom #385:
 
> 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?
 
800-800 seems to belong to US Sprint (judging from the recording I got
when I dialed 800-800-0000).  As to whether it's the only instance of
an xyz-xyz number, I've found that 213-213-xxxx is a valid phone
number, and many others are theoretically possible as the use of
area-code like exchanges increase.
 
 
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