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Re:Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon by hnarn on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:06AM (#24838170)
Almost all of them are taken but 999 is still free!
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Re:Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon by DanBC on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:38AM (#24838611)
999 is the emergency number in the UK and a few other places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
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Re:Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the moon by hnarn on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:11PM (#24839880)
That's far from ideal, but country codes in phone numbers are also always prefixed, so a phone number in country code 999 would never start with that number, it would either be +999 [something] on a smartphone for example, or the old school equivalent 00 999 [something].
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