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Re: Internet Phone Companies May Cut Off Customers

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:44:05 -0700

Paul Coxwell wrote:

> Despite the 999 system, there was, however, still a widely adopted
> convention that the regular number for the police should use 2222.

Sounds much like the convention that many US cities used where the
local police departments' phone numbers all ended in 1234 and the fire
departments ended in 1212. This was true of Cleveland and most of its
suburbs.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A 'standard' set by AT&T for the
operating companies was to use '2121' or '2131' as well. The last four
digits were to preferably end in '1' and be repetitive. PAT]n

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