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I recently learned this the hard way. I changed my phone number after moving cities, and AT&T just leased my old number to someone else!
by jfornear 8y ago
I recently learned this the hard way. I changed my phone number after moving cities, and AT&T just leased my old number to someone else!
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoThere is a finite supply of numbers. Not recycling old numbers and just throwing them in a hole forever wouldn't be very prudent.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoThere is an infinite supply of numbers. You can just add extra digits. Mobile phone numbers used to be 8 digits in NZ, then became 9 digits when they needed more numbers.
- cbluth 8y agoNumbers aren't limited to the amount you can count, there will always be more.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat did you expect was going to happen?
- Fnoord 8y agoI'd expect it to be reused _eventually_; not right away though.