On 22 Jul 2010 11:35, John Todd wrote:
On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Hiers, David wrote:
Is NPA 710 still the federal Government Emergency Telephone Service (GETS) NPA for the National Security / Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) program?
Either someone is misdialing, or pizza hut is calling back to confirm Jack Bauer?s order...
I figure that something that big couldn?t get reassigned without me noticing something in some planning letter, but those GETS folks are pretty tricky :)
You're seeing this as a caller ID on inbound calls? I've found that the proliferation of previous area codes into exchanges has led to some strange, mangled caller IDs that actually work if you press "redial", but they get a person who has NO idea what you're calling about. 710 I'm sure is now an exchange in lots of places that is somehow turning into an area code on outbound presentation.
Or this could be yet-another ill-fated "private prefix" for VoIP dialing, like area code 747 for the Gizmo project, or (coincidentally) area code 700 for IAXTel. I hate e.164. :-)
Or it could be a broken PBX that is simply sending invalid calling number information (either accidentally or purposefully) and the telco isn't blocking it. This is not uncommon; I get calls from area code 000 and the like fairly regularly. Or it might be someone calling from Russia or Kazakhstan, which are country code +7. On many occasions, I've had numbers show up as invalid or incorrect US area codes because something doesn't handle international numbers right. For instance, a call from Brussels (+32 2 XXX-XX-XX) showed up as 322-XXX-XXXX, which I only noticed because I knew that area code was reserved. S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking