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Wait what? There are countries that put letters into phone NUMBERS?
by dronescanfly 8y ago
Wait what?
There are countries that put letters into phone NUMBERS?
- emodendroket 8y agoThe numbers all have three or four letters above them and people (mostly businesses, really) will sometimes get a number that spells out a memorable mnemonic. That's all he's talking about.
- lmkg 8y agoThis is what the average phone bad looks like in the United States: http://www.pachd.com/free-images/technology-images/phone-dial-pad-01.jpg http://www.pachd.com/free-images/technology-images/phone-dia... There is a standard, universal mapping of letters onto numbers. This allows companies to advertise their phone number as something memorable like 1-800-CASH-4-AU and everyone knows how to dial it. People don't even need to remember the mapping of letters, because they're printed on every keypad.
- sevensor 8y agoUsed to be common in the US. You'd have two letters for the exchange, then five digits for the telephone number.
- walshemj 8y agoWell there are the A B C and D DTMF tones not sure if those technically count as numbers and from memory they are without the ITU spec for a phone numbers.
- nsxwolf 8y agoIn the US, phone numbers started with 2 letters well into the 1960s. They were usually the first 2 letters of the street name the nearest telephone exchange was on. My grandfather's address book was full of numbers still written that way.