Unique Facts About Phone Numbers

Have you ever imagined now you do not have a cell phone? It is hard to not like the phone used to have a home without wires. You must be willing to walk away in order to telephone or public telephone nearby.

Well did you know that the phone number that you use every day has an interesting history?
At first it takes a phone operator, because you basically can not reach directly to the destination phone number. All you have to do is call ahead to ask the operator to connect to a destination number.




There is a unique story about this system at the time the B Almond Strowger who lives in Kansas City thought it was weird when business continued to decline as consumers who call to Strowger instead diverted to competitors, turns calibaration investigate the telephone operator was the wife of the competitors.

Utilizing his position the operator to move the consumer's phone Strowger telephone number of her husband. Since then Strowger determined that people do not need to call through the operator to connect.

1888 Strowger system improve discovery with rotary dial phone. With this system, customers can directly call by dialing the destination receiver.











To contact someone, callers should play 4 times (4 digit number). The main rule is no number beginning with 1 or 0, because 0 is used to contact the operator and one for the internal switch.

So you can not reach 0291, because once you press 0 you will be directly connected to the operator.



1922 Name Telephone Exchange was introduced instead of a regular phone number that is easy to remember, the format is the first two digits replaced last letter attached to a name, for example KL 5 = 555, see your cell phone call, the letter K and L in the 5.

The alphabet is usually combined with two other alphabets into a name, example Klondike 234, meaning his number is 555-234, you can ignore the letter "ondike". Therefore, you will often see in America a number of letters and names.



Sejarah Kode Area

Tahun 1950 mulai diperkenalkan kode area, dengan nomor kedua adalah 1 atau 0, kenapa ada kode area? Karena tanpa kode area maka sumber daya nomor akan cepat habis padahal kebutuhan terhadap nomor telepon meningkat.

History of Area Code

1950 introduced the area code, the second number is 1 or 0, why is the area code? Because without the area code then the number of resources will be quickly depleted when the need for increased telephone number.

Rules at the beginning of the area code is like this:

If the first digit is 0 then connected to the operator
If the second digit is not 0 then it is considered as a local call
If the second digit is 0 then go to the third digit, and is considered a long distance call
If the third digit is 0 then it is considered a special number
If the second digit is 1 then go to the third digit
If the third digit is 1 or 0 then go to a special number
If the third digit other than 1 or 0 then it is considered a long distance call.
Example: 911 (emergency call)



Why only 1 and 0 keys that do not have an alphabet? Most likely there is no alphabet in the numbers 1 and 0 are used to an age of 1 and 0 is forbidden except for special purposes, and therefore the beginning of the alphabet 2.