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About Fred Goodwin
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My telephony expertise is in the regulatory / policy area. If you have questions about FCC or Texas PUC regulations, I might be able to help you.
I am not an engineer or installer, so I can't answer technical questions about networking, cell phones, VOIP etc.
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I have over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, all of it with a major telephone company. During that time, I've been a telco engineer (79-83), auditor (83-89), rates & tariff analyst (89-96), R&D manager (96-00), a federal regulatory analyst (00-02) and now a state tariff and regulatory analyst (03-08).
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IEEE (since 1980)
ICMA (since 1992)
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I have a BS in Physics, an associates in accounting, an MBA in telecommunications.
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I am a Certified Management Accountant (since 1992).
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You are here: Experts > Industry > Telephony > Telephony--Clecs, Long Distance > Difference between a cell number and a phone number
Expert: Fred Goodwin
Date: 8/22/2008
Subject: Difference between a cell number and a phone number
Question
Hi, the question is how do i notice the difference between a cell number and a phone number, i know both are 10 digits, 3 for the code area and 7 for the number.For example in Spain you dial 6 before the cell number, in japan cell numbers start with 090,080 and 070, Venezuela, cell numbers start with 412,416, 414,415,etc, it depends on the phone company. how do i notice the difference in USA, cell phone numbers and phone numbers. thanks.
Answer
In the US, there is no way to tell the difference between a cell phone number and a "normal" telephone number, just by looking at it.
Theoretically, you could tell by looking up the NXX (the first three digits that follow the area code), as cell phone companies normally get their own block of numbers assigned to them, to be reassigned to their customers.
But with local number portability, what was once a cellphone number could be "ported" to a landline or wireline provider. So that particular number in the NXX block would no longer be associated with a wireless provider.
I'm not sure why you need to know this, but I can't think of a good way to do what you want.
Sorry.
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