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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:42:05 GMT
- From: "T. Archer" <ARCHER@utkvm1.utk.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Ownership of Telephone Numbers
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.120.7@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: University of Tennessee
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 120, Message 7 of 8
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- In article <comp-privacy1.116.6@pica.army.mil> Leonard Erickson <leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com> writes:
- >Path: utkux1.utk.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!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!
- >
- Or ask any BBS operator who has moved across town.
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