Choosing Your New Number?

I've been told it's no longer possible to specify any or all of a new
phone number. Anyone have any tricky ways to somehow choose or
otherwise specify part of a new phone number? Don't cellular
providers reserve numbers by blocks and have some way of knowing which
are available?

Any ideas?

Thx!

Mark

"gmark" <gmark@svs.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> I've been told it's no longer possible to specify any or all of a new
> phone number. Anyone have any tricky ways to somehow choose or
> otherwise specify part of a new phone number? Don't cellular
> providers reserve numbers by blocks and have some way of knowing which
> are available?
>
> Any ideas?

I just call the operator and ask if the number I want is vacant. If it is, I
asked them to reserv the number for me.

No problems.

On Feb 3, 9:03*am, "BG" <bo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "gmark" <gm...@svs.com> skrev i meddelandetnews:906b3b91-9a40-480e-998e-aa3b4b9a6470@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I've been told it's no longer possible to specify any or all of a new
> >phonenumber. *Anyone have any tricky ways to somehow choose or
> > otherwise specify part of a newphonenumber? *Don't cellular
> > providers reserve numbers by blocks and have some way of knowing which
> > are available?
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> I just call the operator and ask if thenumberI want is vacant. If it is, I
> asked them to reserv thenumberfor me.
>
> No problems.

Have you done that and been able to actually get that number?

Mark

"gmark" <gmark@svs.com> wrote in message
news:906b3b91-9a40-480e-998e-aa3b4b9a6470@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...
> I've been told it's no longer possible to specify any or all of a new
> phone number. Anyone have any tricky ways to somehow choose or
> otherwise specify part of a new phone number? Don't cellular
> providers reserve numbers by blocks and have some way of knowing which
> are available?
>
> Any ideas?

2 years ago, I didn't have a problem getting a number in the area code I
wanted, but I was asked for a valid zip code in the area code's coverage to
accomplish the assignment. You might think that's not much, but I live in
Southern California where we have more than a dozen AC's. I didn't care to
specify the prefix or the last 4 digits - just the AC and area where the
prefix's central office was.

"gmark" <gmark@svs.com> skrev i meddelandet
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On Feb 3, 9:03 am, "BG" <bo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "gmark" <gm...@svs.com> skrev i
> meddelandetnews:906b3b91-9a40-480e-998e-aa3b4b9a6470@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I've been told it's no longer possible to specify any or all of a new
> >phonenumber. Anyone have any tricky ways to somehow choose or
> > otherwise specify part of a newphonenumber? Don't cellular
> > providers reserve numbers by blocks and have some way of knowing which
> > are available?
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> I just call the operator and ask if the numberI want is vacant. If it is,
> I
> asked them to reserv the number for me.
>
> No problems.

Have you done that and been able to actually get that number?

Mark

Yes on several occasions.