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by Broken_Hippo
1194 days ago
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Verizon and other carriers even admit to recycling numbers as soon as 6 months after they were last used This has been standard for decades - it is a holdover from landlines. The companies only own a certain number of phone numbers. (Supposedly, when you change companies, 'ownership' of the number transfers to the new company). They've generally said that in more populous areas (or at least, areas with more phone numbers being actively used) that recycling numbers was the only way without changing the number format again. I didn't think this was exactly a secret - but I could have learned this working for GTE/Verizon a couple of decades ago. |
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