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  2. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    Fictitious telephone number Ranges for fictitious telephone numbers are common in most telephone numbering plans. One of the main reasons these ranges exist is to avoid accidentally using real phone numbers in movies and television programs because of viewers frequently calling the numbers used.

  3. Telephone directory - Wikipedia

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    Telephone directory. A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a ...

  4. 555 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    555 (telephone number) The telephone number prefix 555 is a central office code in the North American Numbering Plan, used as the leading part of a group of 10,000 telephone numbers, 555-...., in each numbering plan area (NPA) (area code). It has traditionally been used only for the provision of directory assistance, when dialing NPA-555-1212.

  5. Phoneword - Wikipedia

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    Phonewords are mnemonic phrases represented as alphanumeric equivalents of a telephone number. [1] In many countries, the digits on the telephone keypad also have letters assigned. By replacing the digits of a telephone number with the corresponding letters, it is sometimes possible to form a whole or partial word, an acronym, abbreviation, or ...

  6. History of telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    History of telephone numbers in the United Kingdom Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom have a flexible structure that reflects their historical demands, starting from many independent companies through a nationalised near-monopoly, to a system that supports many different services, including cellular phones, which were not envisaged when the system was first built. Numbers evolved in a ...

  7. Category : Telephone directory publishing companies of the ...

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    Pages in category "Telephone directory publishing companies of the United States" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  8. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    National conventions for writing telephone numbers vary by country. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) publishes a recommendation entitled Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web addresses. Recommendation E.123 specifies the format of telephone numbers assigned to telephones and similar communication endpoints in national telephone ...

  9. Whitepages (company) - Wikipedia

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    Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on residents of the United States. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.