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 <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
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.
-- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/