On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:01:38 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

Verizon. In all cases, the area code was the same as the area code for
my home phone.

That's a bit daft. When I'm going to call a number, I know if it's a mobile by the first 5 digits.


It used to be you could identify a cell by the prefix but then they
let people take their old land line number with them to a cell.
Part of that was we were just running out of numbers.