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phone system-not worthreading this - CardBoardBox - 09-07-2021
In the old days, 2nd hand info, Negril had 2 pay phones. Yet "silver" (coins) were hard to find/get. In the 80's, for parts of a J dollar, (8 to 1 US) you got candy instead of coins.
Now everyone has cell phones. Outgoing calls cost. Intra USA calls I pay both ways. In JA, as long as the # works, (2 or 3 months without applying credit), incoming calls work.
Digicel and Flow/lime/cable-and-wireless are the 2 systems. I like flow cause of the lower costs and no complicated plans, prepaid, which Digicel pushes and are wasteful IMO.
Rates were the highest of maybe 18J a minute, then down to about J3, but I think now is higher. Flow let me call the US from JA for the same J3 per minute.
People are still getting robbed of their expensive phones, or murdered, in both countries. You can buy a car for less than a high end phone. OK, ok, it's a Fred Flintstone car where you have to use your feet to make it go foreward. LOL
copied:
Summary of US Area Code System
The area code system that we use today was originally designed by AT&T in the 1940’s to standardize the growing and varied types of local numbering plans developed since the invention of the telephone. The original name for what we have come to know as the area code was the North American Number Plan (NANP). When the original network was finished only 86 area codes were initially assigned, with New Jersey receiving the initial area code of 201. Since its initial introduction the system has grown to cover the entire US and is used in other North American countries, such as Canada and Mexico. When personal phone numbers were first assigned the only way to track who called you was to search the local white pages. Finding out the phone number of someone calling long distance was virtually impossible. Today,
today you can't trust the reverse directory companies which provide bogus info in most cases. WhitePages dot com has been an exception.
In JA you have to prove who you are to buy a phone/sim chip (400-500 J)
hope you found this interesting.
Here is history in the US. I tried but couldn't paste it here.
Our 3 digit area codes began in 1940 by ATT. First was NJ with code 201 (NY started with 212). There were 85 area codes at the onset, I guess the number of states plus some large cities like NYC. Long Island, not a state but a region east of NY, has area code 516. Guess that was a change sometime after 1940.
Now, as you know, we do 1-area code because they ran out of "exchanges" and wanted to use the holes/reserved number. Hence area code 201 can also be an exchange in any state. That's why we have to tell the system the whole 10 digit number, but since 7 digits worked for a while, ah, you can finish this yourself.
RE: phone system-not worthreading this - CardBoardBox - 09-07-2021
Summary of US Area Code System
The area code system that we use today was originally designed by AT&T in the 1940’s to standardize the growing and varied types of local numbering plans developed since the invention of the telephone. The original name for what we have come to know as the area code was the North American Number Plan (NANP). When the original network was finished only 86 area codes were initially assigned, with New Jersey receiving the initial area code of 201. Since its initial introduction the system has grown to cover the entire US and is used in other North American countries, such as Canada and Mexico. When personal phone numbers were first assigned the only way to track who called you was to search the local white pages. Finding out the phone number of someone calling long distance was virtually impossible. Today,
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the sites which want to sell you info reverse directory are often bugus data.
whitepages dot com sometimes is accurate.