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 Message 2424 
 John Levine to All 
 Re: Area code splits 
 19 Nov 12 04:32:02 
 
From: johnl@iecc.com

XPost: nyc.transit

>It is a practical issue affecting the market viability of any
>caller-pays "non-geographic" number where it is impossible to determine,
>before making the call, what the rate applied will be.

We already have those.  They're 1-900 and 1-500 (and 1-5XX) numbers.
Wahoo.

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