On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:48:57 -0800 (PST), John B
wrote:

Landlines are only an issue because the numbers after "01" and "02"
mean something, which means you can't (e.g.) fill the demand for new
numbers in London by using the spare capacity in the 01620 range (I'm
guessing there are rather fewer than a million landlines in North
Berwick...).

Well, you *could*. All you'd need to do, assuming the modern
exchanges can be modified to cope, is to do away with STD codes.
They're of limited relevance these days anyway, as I recall another
poster said earlier in the thread.

Neil

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