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  2. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

  3. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...

  4. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    It did exist in other cities, resulting in customers' having that number receiving random calls from people asking for God. While some played along with the gag, others found the calls aggravating. The number in the Glenn Miller Orchestra's hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (1940) is the number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. The ...

  5. Random digit dialing - Wikipedia

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    Random digit dialing ( RDD) is a method for selecting people for involvement in telephone statistical surveys by generating telephone numbers at random. Random digit dialing has the advantage that it includes unlisted numbers that would be missed if the numbers were selected from a phone book. In populations where there is a high telephone ...

  6. Telephone numbers in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.

  7. List of North American Numbering Plan area codes - Wikipedia

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    1993: split to create 905. 2001: overlaid by 647. 2013: overlaid by 437. 2025: overlaid by 942. area code 387 is reserved as a fifth code for the region. 417. Missouri ( Springfield, Joplin, Branson, Lamar, Lebanon, and most of southwestern Missouri) 1950. created from parts of the area codes 314 and 816.

  8. Telephone numbers in Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    This is a discussion of telephone numbers in Ukraine. The nation of Ukraine has country code +380. It switched to the European Union 's common dialing plan in 2009. Thus, Ukrainian phone numbers consist of a 2-digit zone code, an optional subzone code, an optional filler (zero to two "2 " 's), and the local phone number (five to seven digits).

  9. Telephone numbers in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Mobile phones. Within Australia, mobile phone numbers begin with 04 or 05 – the Australian national trunk code 0, plus the mobile indicator 4 or 5 – followed by eight digits. This is generally written as 04XX XXX XXX within Australia, or as +61 4XX XXX XXX for an international audience.