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Originally Posted by 4691mls
There's only one area code in my city/general area, but maybe large metropolitan areas have different area codes for cell or landlines?
In my area, cell phones usually have different prefixes from landline numbers though. (for those unfamiliar with US phone number formats, the prefix is the number after the area code - aaa-bbb-cccc - the bbb part is the prefix)
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That may have been what Uncle Robin meant. Yes the prefixes are different for cell phones and landlines not the area code. In fact they used to be assigned to specific carriers. Until the US allowed people to keep their phone number,when they changed service providers, the prefix would tell to carrier the caller used. It was one way the big companies kept customers leashed to them. If you changed carriers you got a new number. I switched from Sprint when they first allowed you to keep your number. My prefix is from sprint even though I use another carrier.
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