Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

[Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>]

In a message written on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:49:37AM +0100, tim () pelican org wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does anyone have a good pointer to the history of how / why US mobile ended up in the same 
> numbering plan as fixed-line?

The other answers address the history here better than I ever good, but
I wanted to point out one example I hadn't seen mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_917

917 was originally a mobile only area code overlay in New York City.
For reasons that are unclear to me, after that experiement it was
decided that the US would never do that again.

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Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org
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