Why haven’t we run out of cellphone numbers?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There are 10000000000 different phone numbers in the US.

There are 334633886 people within the US.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Theoretically we could add a bunch of numbers by using * and #, too, since all modern equipment can process those tones, but that would probably cause a lot of database software to need updating.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Theoretically we could add a bunch of numbers by using * and #, too, since all modern equipment can process those tones, but that would probably cause a lot of database software to need updating.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I guess that’s offset by the amount of kids/people that don’t have phones?

Anonymous 0 Comments

I guess that’s offset by the amount of kids/people that don’t have phones?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Theoretically we could add a bunch of numbers by using * and #, too, since all modern equipment can process those tones, but that would probably cause a lot of database software to need updating.

Anonymous 0 Comments

My city ran into that. twin cities, mn. Used to have one area code for a large area. Fine for one phone per house. Then cell phones happened. We now have 612-651-952-763. 4 instead of one. I’m still jealous of my sisters og 612 area code #

Anonymous 0 Comments

I guess that’s offset by the amount of kids/people that don’t have phones?