Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1991 16:53:50 GMT From: Michael VanNorman Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Reusing Numbers After Just One Day Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA 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 504, Message 8 of 12 Lines: 20 gast@cs.ucla.edu (David Gast) writes: > I called a friend of mine who lived in one of the dorms at UCLA last > school year the other night. I called on Sunday and the quarter ended > on Friday so I expected to get an intercept like "The number you > dialed is not in service ..." and I was hoping "the new number is ..." > Instead I got connected to new tenants. I am not sure if it was the > same room number, but it was the same dorm (I asked). I used to live in the dorms at UCLA and discovered that the phone numbers are assigned permanently to each room. If you think about it, it does help GTE on data entry. The only thing they need to change about the billing is the name. The account number (phone number) and address are always the same. With the high turnover rate in the dorms it probably adds up. Mike