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'''Slater''': "That's why we have ''area codes.''" }}
** Of course, even if they did use area codes, only 10 million people could be serviced with only the 555 prefix, which isn't enough to cover the LA metro area, let alone the rest of the country. If any area code-prefix-suffix combination is used, the North American phone system has a 10 billion number capacity.
** The same issue would arise if the North American Numbering Plan were legally required to issue the local number 867-5309 to every subscriber with the name "Jenny" or "Jennifer". It'd break the entire system.
* ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' used the Class C private IP version (192.168.x.y).
* In the 2008 TV film based on the 1959 play ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (and set in that time period), the for-sale sign outside the Youngers' new home lists the phone number as "KL 50148".
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* A typical example appears in ''[[The Ref]]'' when Gus gives Lloyd's number to Murray.
* Monument Taxi in ''[[True Lies]]'' has 555-2439. Another 800 number is written on their cars, too, for some reason.
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