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Le 02/09/2014 14:43, Francois Labreque a écrit :
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> In North America,
Hollywood even get its own dedicated area-code, unreachable: 555, to be
used in all movies and series.
--
Just because nobody complains does not mean all parachutes are perfect.
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> You'd think that with everybody moving to VOIP, demand for actual
> telephone numbers would be *rapidly decreasing*...
I think people still want a real phone number for their desk, even if
internally it is handled over VOIP. Maybe it's also because there are
just more jobs where people have a phone on their desk (less
manufacturing, more service etc).
> Well, yeah... but so is IPv6, technically. ;-)
Not in practise though, unless you envisage the global population going
up by a factor of a billion, and each person having a billion devices
that each require a billion IP addresses :-)
> And to think, the dance school only just replaced their sign with one
> that says 01908 rather than 0908...
Where my mum lives about 20+ years ago you could just dial 9 instead of
0703 as a shortcut to the Southampton exchange. When you see *that* on a
sign you know it's old.
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The german system is much easier:
Any number that starts with non-zero is inside the same area code.
Any number starting with zero starts with an area code.
Any number starting with two zeroes (or a plus) starts with a country code.
Area (actually city) codes vary in length from 2 to 5 digits, depending on size
of the exchange (bigger exchange, less numbers).
Phone numbers (without area code) vary from 3 to 7 digits (AFAIK) depending on
the age of the phone number and the size of the exchange.
What usually happened is that they introduced longer numbers before they ran aut
of numbers in the area code, meaning new numbers started with 8 or 9 and were
longer than the old numbers, or they prefixed the old numbers with a 1 (I think
they still started the new numbers with 8 in my hometown to prevent mixups since
you couldn't distinguish eg 4865 from 48658)
Regards
Aydan
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On 02/09/2014 02:30 PM, Aydan wrote:
> The german system is much easier:
> Any number that starts with non-zero is inside the same area code.
> Any number starting with zero starts with an area code.
> Any number starting with two zeroes (or a plus) starts with a country code.
That is exactly how the UK system works.
Or, it was until now, anyway... They want to make it so that the area
code *always* comes first, so both the network number and host number
can contain any combination of digits you want.
Er, I mean area code and telephone code. Damnit...
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Le 2014-09-02 08:57, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Le 02/09/2014 14:43, Francois Labreque a écrit :
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>> In North America,
>
> Hollywood even get its own dedicated area-code, unreachable: 555, to be
> used in all movies and series.
>
Actually, that's the exchange. Every area code has a "555" exchange
that is used for unreachable numbers (with the exception of 555-1212,
which the telephone directory assistance for that area code. for
example, if I need to find the phone number of someone in my area code,
I dial 411, however, if I want to find the phone number of someone in
say, the 213 area code, I would dial 1-213-555-1212)
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Am 02.09.2014 22:01, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> Le 2014-09-02 08:57, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
>> Le 02/09/2014 14:43, Francois Labreque a écrit :
>>>
>>> In North America,
>>
>> Hollywood even get its own dedicated area-code, unreachable: 555, to be
>> used in all movies and series.
>>
> Actually, that's the exchange. Every area code has a "555" exchange
> that is used for unreachable numbers (with the exception of 555-1212,
> which the telephone directory assistance for that area code. for
> example, if I need to find the phone number of someone in my area code,
> I dial 411, however, if I want to find the phone number of someone in
> say, the 213 area code, I would dial 1-213-555-1212)
... and I would just look it up on the Internet :-P
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>> I dial 411, however, if I want to find the phone number of someone in
>> say, the 213 area code, I would dial 1-213-555-1212)
>
> ... and I would just look it up on the Internet :-P
The Internet is for porn. :-P
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> You'd think that with everybody moving to VOIP, demand for actual
> telephone numbers would be *rapidly decreasing*...
Also it's stupid how most (all?) broadband providers force you to have a
phone as well - I suspect a lot of people would be happy to pay a bit
less and not have a landline at all.
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On 03/09/2014 07:43, scott wrote:
>> You'd think that with everybody moving to VOIP, demand for actual
>> telephone numbers would be *rapidly decreasing*...
>
> Also it's stupid how most (all?) broadband providers force you to have a
> phone as well - I suspect a lot of people would be happy to pay a bit
> less and not have a landline at all.
>
You need the landline to get the internet service to your router. So you
are paying line rental and get the phone service as a freebie.
--
Regards
Stephen
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>> Also it's stupid how most (all?) broadband providers force you to have a
>> phone as well - I suspect a lot of people would be happy to pay a bit
>> less and not have a landline at all.
>>
>
> You need the landline to get the internet service to your router. So you
> are paying line rental and get the phone service as a freebie.
There must be some costs that could be cut though if a significant
number of people didn't want the phone service on their line (I'm
thinking less equipment in the exchange etc). After all if you choose
just a phone line without internet it's cheaper than having both, but
there's no option for just internet without phone.
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