This makes me wonder what the 'market value' of a 212 DID is. I have seen them anywhere from $55 to $600 from providers specifically saying "buy this DID and port it out to your carrier of choice".
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Leo Bicknell <bickn...@ufp.org> wrote: > In a message written on Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:49:37AM +0100, > t...@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. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ >