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by rippercushions 1261 days ago
Fun fact: +1 is not a country, but all of North America. For a long time it was entirely possible to dial a perfectly ordinary looking +1 258 xxxxxxx number and get charged up the wazoo because (258) is Antigua and Barbuda, not New Jersey.
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Pissed me off how American Airlines wouldn't send me SMS updates to my Canadian number, even though it should cost only slightly more than than a USA number. I guess they got burned sending updates to some caribbean island number in the past.

Ugh.