Why haven’t we run out of cellphone numbers?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

(North America) the large part, we just keep adding additional area codes as needed when geographical areas get close to exhausting their supply of available nunbers.

Anonymous 0 Comments

(North America) the large part, we just keep adding additional area codes as needed when geographical areas get close to exhausting their supply of available nunbers.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Funny thing: apparently I have the same number as someone in Croatia (I am from another country, Slovenia) and sometimes I get calls because they put a wrong country code so they are confused when they thought they called the other person…

Anonymous 0 Comments

A few days ago a woman called me accidentally and then when I wrote I didn’t know who she was in an ambiguous manner, she called me looking for wisdom from her mother from whom my number was ostensibly derived after reassignment. Not sure of the Dewey Decimal, but I feel this belongs here.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Funny thing: apparently I have the same number as someone in Croatia (I am from another country, Slovenia) and sometimes I get calls because they put a wrong country code so they are confused when they thought they called the other person…

Anonymous 0 Comments

A few days ago a woman called me accidentally and then when I wrote I didn’t know who she was in an ambiguous manner, she called me looking for wisdom from her mother from whom my number was ostensibly derived after reassignment. Not sure of the Dewey Decimal, but I feel this belongs here.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I wonder why the cellphone number I got in 2015 had been someone else’s: someone who apparently has collection agencies after him. Also Google Voice seems to be afraid of “wasting” numbers

Anonymous 0 Comments

I wonder why the cellphone number I got in 2015 had been someone else’s: someone who apparently has collection agencies after him. Also Google Voice seems to be afraid of “wasting” numbers

Anonymous 0 Comments

Numbers get recycled. As soon as someones plan is cancelled, the 30 to 90 day countdown begins. Each company has a policy on how long it gives people to restore service using the same number.

I have gotten phone numbers that someone who owned the phone number before i did, had a whole lot of collection calls.

My current number gets called sometimes by a stranger named Shawn who apparenty goes to jail a lot. “An inmate from the blankety blank jail is trying to call you. Would you like to accept the charges?” NOPE.

Once, I actually called the jail and asked the booking people to relay a message to Shawn that my number is not someone he knows. They advised me on how to block calls from jail. Hahaha It worked fine.

Anonymous 0 Comments

A few days ago a woman called me accidentally and then when I wrote I didn’t know who she was in an ambiguous manner, she called me looking for wisdom from her mother from whom my number was ostensibly derived after reassignment. Not sure of the Dewey Decimal, but I feel this belongs here.