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From: RAF@NIHCU.BITNET ("Roger Fajman")
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re:  INFO-MODEMS Digest V88 #15
Message-ID: <8801151746.AA20373@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 88 17:35:57 GMT
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> John R. Levine asks about pay phones --
>  1) He notes, correctly, that some exchanges did/still do have private phones
> beginning with 9xxx. Its not too common, but happens. Here in Chicago, one
> exchange for many years, "LOngbeach 1" (now 561) had private residence numbers
> beginning that way.

My newly-assigned home phone number here in the Maryland suburbs of
Washington DC (served by C&P Telephone, part of Bell Atlantic) is
in the 9xxx series.  I suspect that the shortage of exchanges in
some areas is forcing the phone companies to give up such conventions.