Unique Facts About Phone Numbers You Need to Know

Unique Facts About Phone Numbers You Need to Know



Have you ever imagined now you do not have a mobile phone? It is hard not like the phone used to have a home without wires. You must be willing to walk long distances to the nearest telephone kiosk or a public phone.

Well did you know that the phone number that you use every day has an interesting history?
At first it takes a telephone operator, because you basically can not reach directly to the destination phone number. All you have to do is call ahead to ask the operator connected to the destination number.


There is a unique story about this system at the time the B Almond Strowger who lives in Kansas City thought it was weird when the business has continued to decline as consumers who called to Strowger instead diverted to competitors, investigate a calibaration turns phone operator is the wife of the competitors.

Utilizing his position the operator to move the consumer phone Strowger telephone number of her husband. Since then Strowger determined that people do not need to call through the operator to connect.

Strowger in 1888 with the invention of the telephone system perfected rotary dial. With this system, customers can simply call the destination by dialing the number of the recipient.



To contact someone, callers should play 4 times (4 digit number). The main rule is that no numbers beginning with 1 or 0, because 0 is used to call the operator and one for the internal switch.

So you can not reach 0291, because as soon as you press the 0 key you will be directly connected to the operator.



Introduced in 1922 as the Telephone Exchange Name change telephone numbers so easy to remember, the format was changed the first two digits and letters attached to a name, for example KL 5 = 555, see your cell phone call, letter K and L are the 5 key.

Usually the two alphabets are combined with other alphabets into a name, eg Klondike 234, means the number is 555-234, you can ignore the letter "ondike". Therefore, you will often see in America a telephone number consisting of letters and names.




History of Area Code

In 1950, area codes were introduced, the second number is 1 or 0, why there are area codes? Because without the area code then the number of resources will be quickly depleted when the need for increased numbers.

The rules at the beginning of the area code is like this:
If the first digit is 0 then connected to the operator
If the second digit is not 0 then it is considered as a local call
If the second digit is 0 then go to the third digit and is considered a long distance call
If the third digit is 0 then it is considered a special number
If the second digit is 1 then go to the third digit
If the third digit is 1 or 0 then go to a special number
If the third digit other than 0 or 1 is considered a long distance call.
Example: 911 (emergency call)




Why only the 1 and 0 that does not have an alphabet? Most likely there is no alphabet in the numbers 1 and 0 are due to age the first 1 and 0 is forbidden except for special purposes, and therefore the alphabet starting from the 2.