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What was the significance of the '3615' in all the service codes? Was this just a common prefix like 'www' in web addresses?
by drewmate 9y ago
What was the significance of the '3615' in all the service codes? Was this just a common prefix like 'www' in web addresses?
- ebalit 9y agoIt was more than a common prefix. More like a portal.
- vbernat 9y agoIt's the short phone number to dial to get access to the portal where you enter the name of the service you want. There were different ones with different pricing. 3614 was cheaper (no revenue for the service I think), 3615 was regular and 3617 was expensive (you could buy stuff, like games by staying online). While most services were accessible through this portal (operated by the French telco), you could also dial a "regular number" to access some services à la BBS.
- Renaud 9y agoThe various services had different peicing tiers. 3615 was the most used and would cost a few francs per minutes. Some sites would force you to spend some time on their 3615 number so you could accumulate 'minutes' of use through the cheaper '3614' number. They used that scheme to modulate the cost of their service.