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From: dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: "Auctioning" a telephone number?
Message-ID: <982@aicchi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 01:31:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 01:31:56 1987
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Summary: You do not own your telephone number.



Well, Will, you do not own your telephone number.  It may be changed at will
by the phone company.  When you give it up, any business in your exchange area
may request it, and the phone company will finally decide who gets it.  The
phone company would probably not allow you to sell the number to anybody else,
and need not honor the say if you did.  Sorry for quashing an otherwise good
idea.

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-David B. (Ben) Burch
 Analysts International Corp.
 Chicago Branch (ihnp4!aicchi!dbb)

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