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0 pointsjfornear7y ago0 comments

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!

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Tijdreiziger7y ago· 2 in thread

There is a finite supply of numbers. Not recycling old numbers and just throwing them in a hole forever wouldn't be very prudent.

toomanybeersies7y ago

There 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.

cbluth7y ago

Numbers aren't limited to the amount you can count, there will always be more.

manigandham7y ago· 1 in thread

What did you expect was going to happen?

Fnoord7y ago

I'd expect it to be reused _eventually_; not right away though.

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