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		afandian on Aug 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your online identity is owned by your email provid... This may be how it is in the States, but in the UK all mobiles phones start with 07 (other area residential codes start 01, 02 etc). I always found it weird that the US numbering system assumes that mobile phones are static. Must be some weird technical debt buried somewhere.

kube-system on Aug 26, 2022 [–]

The first mobile phone I used only had coverage in a particular area. It didn’t work outside of town.

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