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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.
When I went to college in small town Ohio, phone #s were only 5 digits. The first digit was either a 9 for on campus or 5 for in town. There was no 911 or similar number. If you dialed outside of town, it was a long distance toll call.
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
There are 10000000000 different phone numbers in the US.
There are 334633886 people within the US.
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…
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.
There are 10000000000 different phone numbers in the US.
There are 334633886 people within the US.
When I went to college in small town Ohio, phone #s were only 5 digits. The first digit was either a 9 for on campus or 5 for in town. There was no 911 or similar number. If you dialed outside of town, it was a long distance toll call.
X-XXX-XXX-XXXX format allows for 99,999,999,999 individual numbers, which is about 12.5 times the number of people on the planet, and there are other formats.
When I went to college in small town Ohio, phone #s were only 5 digits. The first digit was either a 9 for on campus or 5 for in town. There was no 911 or similar number. If you dialed outside of town, it was a long distance toll call.
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