XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-22 21:26, tlvp wrote:   
   > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:55:55 +0300, Micky wrote:   
   >   
   >>  I've gotten two wrong numbers too, on this Skype number,   
   >> which looks like a standard Baltimore phone number. .   One was an   
   >> auto-detailer asking if   
   >   
   > Every time some outfit assigns you a new phone number, that number was   
   > taken from a pool of numbers taken out of service. Clearly one should   
   > expect that infrequent correspondents with the prior subscriber at that   
   > number may be unaware the number has "changed hands". In the worst cases   
   > (and this has happened to me), it's a number formerly held by a serial   
   > deadbeat, whose creditors will be calling daily, several of them per day,   
   > until you get the line switched out for another number.   
      
   Here, I know that the main provider waited a long time, perhaps two   
   years, before assigning an old number to a new customer. There are many   
   new numbers in the pool still.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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