BOGBS
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join:2004-05-11
Saco, ME
 ·RoadRunner Cable
2 edits | What if you have a standard telco exchange?
I've had several friends and coworkers who have gotten a cell phone number in a standard phone exchange. These would be exchanges that have been in use by ILEC/RBOC/etc for many years. I've had several reports they've had credit card companies, satellite dish, and other salespeople/telemarketers calling these numbers. Although these numbers are probably recycled land line blocks, who knows...
I'm not sure if this is an occurrence in other areas around the country, but people that have been given regular land line exchanges might find telemarketers and other unwanted callers making calls to their number.
This may be partially the fault of cell phone companies. I thought it was odd that my wife's new cell phone number a couple years back got an exchange that has been in my area for more than 15 years.
I've been lucky, personally. I've had a standard cell phone exchange, and very minimal problems with text spam, or telemarketing calls. Actually, I don't think I've gotten any telemarketing calls (crosses fingers) |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by BOGBS  :This may be partially the fault of cell phone companies. I thought it was odd that my wife's new cell phone number a couple years back got an exchange that has been in my area for more than 15 years. If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who wanted number porting.
I am a firm believer that cell phones and pagers should have their own exchanges. Even pay phones used to their last 4 numbers start with a 9 to make it easier to identify. |
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BOGBS
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join:2004-05-11
Saco, ME
·RoadRunner Cable
4 edits | said by moonpuppy :said by BOGBS :This may be partially the fault of cell phone companies. I thought it was odd that my wife's new cell phone number a couple years back got an exchange that has been in my area for more than 15 years. If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who wanted number porting. I am a firm believer that cell phones and pagers should have their own exchanges. Even pay phones used to their last 4 numbers start with a 9 to make it easier to identify. That's a great point actually. Number porting is a half decent idea, by my thoughts, but there's definitely many downsides to it... And I'm sure if I asked for another exchange, I probably could have gotten it, if a number was available.
I'm just glad that even though she has this local exchange, we've not had any issues with telemarketing, for the most part. She also only uses it about 10-20 minutes a month, anyway.
I also completely agree that cellphones should have their own exchange as well. Some may want to port their home phone number to a cell, but I'm not one of those people. |
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JasonWISP
join:2004-06-29
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Great point. Actually, the exchanged is based off of "NPA-NXX-X" (including the last X I have there). So, the cell phone company may be using 630-226-3XXX while the 630-226 block is assigned to the larger company. It's not subleased, it's just the way they can be assigned. With smaller areas that have one "exchange", they are used to a prefix per town. So, it is handy to use the same exchange with the 7th number (812-847-X) being the cellular company. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to BOGBS
The problem is people wanted to keep their old cell phone numbers when they changed providers. Verizon actually wanted this because they thought they could get more people. They didn't realize that churn happens both ways. 
I still think landline porting is a bad idea when people move. However, this was a problem relating to the phone companies and the relatively small long distance lengths. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to moonpuppy
said by moonpuppy :If you want to blame anyone, blame the people who wanted number porting. I am a firm believer that cell phones and pagers should have their own exchanges. Even pay phones used to their last 4 numbers start with a 9 to make it easier to identify. Actually where I live it's that way.
At&t POTS 584
At&t cell 220
Verizon cell 441
VoiP( Vonage, Packet 8, Charter etc )213 Unless they ported their POTS number
So I can tell if a local call is calling me from a phone on a POTS line or VoiP, or using cell and which carrier it is just by the first 3 numbers. |
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