In a message written on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:49:37AM +0100, [email protected] 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. -- Leo Bicknell - [email protected] PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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