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roy@harlqn.co.uk (Roy Badami) writes:
>>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

Actually, from some Bell documents I have dating to the early 70's, the
canonical dead numbers were (310) 555-2368 (,9,70,71, etc...)

310 was, of course, in those days, not a valid NPA.

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

Actually, it's used as the prefix for DA in all areas, from LD to the area
in question... and most IXC's use it for carrier services (555-4141 is the
carrier ID 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.

Been a long time since I lived there... _that_ must be new.

Cheers,
-- jra
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