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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:27:23 GMT
- From: Leonard Erickson <leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Ownership of Telephone Numbers
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.116.6@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 116, Message 6 of 11
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- KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:
-
- >I don't know if this applies to private residence numbers, but recently, MCI
- >has been advertising in California that if you want lower rates on your
- >800-number charges, you can transfer from Pacific Telephone and TAKE YOUR
- >800-NUMBER WITH YOU. This kind of implies that the number belongs to you,
- >not to the telco.
-
- 800 numbers are a special case. They are being made "portable" so that you
- can change long distance companies without the penalty of having to get all
- your business cards, ads, etc reprinted.
-
- 800 numbers are just a translation table lookup anyway. They merely "map"
- to a specific "normal number".
-
- Regular phone numbers are most *definitely* owned by the phone company.
- Ask the folks who have had their number changed when the phone company
- put in a new exchange here!
-
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
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- (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
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