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>In the United States and Canada (World Zone 1 to be more precise), when
>you want to represent a phone number without the risk of it being an
>actual valid phone number, you choose a number of the form "555-xxxx", for
>instance, "1-510-555-1234".

If you're qoting a 10-digit number (ie including area code), you often quote the area code as 555 instead.  eg (555) 123 4567

In theory 555 is not used as either an area code, or as the prefix of
any 7 digit phone number.

However, when I was over in Boston, I was surprized to notice that the
info on the New England Telephone payphones gave the numbers for
various telco services as 555 nnnn.

>Do any of the participants in other countries know of similar conventions
>in their or other countries?  Thanks in advance...

I'm not aware of any such code in the UK.

	-roy
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