555 is Dead - Clearing Phone Numbers for Movies (hint: Google Voice)

Re:555 is Dead - Clearing Phone Numbers for Movies (hint: Go... by sirclueless on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:15PM (#2521367)

I thought the point of using 555 numbers was that they can be safely reserved for movies because no one will ever use them for anything at all, even when the movie studio goes defunct and no one cares any more.

A google voice number certainly doesn't fit that bill. It can probably get disconnected and put back for the public for any number of reasons. Maybe getting 2,000 voice mails a day is against the TOS, or maybe Google Voice stops being free, or maybe Google continues its track record with discontinued services and bops it over the head like it did Google Wave. (cough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Previou... cough)

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Re:555 is Dead - Clearing Phone Numbers for Movies (hint: Go... by jordanb on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:19PM (#2521382)

555 numbers are reserved for the phone system usage (kinda like 127 IP addresses). A few of them are in use by the phone system (ex: 555-1212) but the vast majority are not in use and probably won't be used simply because the phone system doesn't need nearly 1,000 local numbers.

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Re:555 is Dead - Clearing Phone Numbers for Movies (hint: Go... by wccrawford on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:28PM (#2521425)

Nearly 1000? You mean exactly 10,000, right? 0000 to 9999.

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