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Posted by gregarican on May 24, 2006, 1:03 pm
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I was thinking the same thing reading through this thread. Made me
think back to when I was a kid growing up in a small town. We had a
party line and I would pick up the phone only to hear the automated
message: "You cannot make a call now because there is another party on
your line."
How far things have progressed.
Carl Navarro wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 12:50:58 -0700, Brad Houser
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> >On Tue, 23 May 2006 06:50:49 GMT, Carl Navarro wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 23 May 2006 01:18:00 -0400, "coolbreeze"
> >>
> >>>Is it possible to identify which CO's in my area are used by Sprint, Nextel
> >>>or other wireless providers? I am trying to identify calls in my log that
> >>>may be from cellular numbers.
> >>
> >> I don't know. Can you read? In my area SPC is SPRINT SPECTRUM LP and
> >> Nextel is NEXTEL (duh).
> >>
> >> http://www.nanpa.com/reports/reports_cocodes_assign.html lists the
> >> tables for exchanges in 3 spreadsheets for the US. Pick your state
> >> and examine the exchanges you know and you'll eventually be able to
> >> figure out what your city code and the carrier code for the various
> >> carriers are.
> >>
> >> Carl Navarro
> >
> >With number portability, this will become more and more inaccurate.
>
> Yep. I was thinking that today. Where are the "good old days" when
> you got a number based on where you lived and when you moved you got a
> new number :-) Where did the 3 digit area codes with a 1 or 0 go?
> Why do people walk around with phones glued to their heads?
>
> Carl "things that make you go hmmmm" Navarro
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