"also have non-geographic numbers allocated. On the Isle of Man, both fixed (01624) and mobile phone (07624) numbers can be dialled locally in the six-digit format. Ofcom has also reserved certain number ranges for use in television dramas and films, so as to avoid the risk of people having their telephone numbers displayed, and receiving unwanted calls. This is similar to the use of fictitious telephone numbers in the United States and Canada starting with the digits 555. In most of the large cities with three-digit area codes a range of numbers is reserved, usually all the numbers starting with"
"exists. Universal Pictures acquired the phone number (212) 664-7665 for use in films to avoid the 555 prefix. It has been used in the films ""Munich"", ""Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"", ""The Adjustment Bureau"", and ""Definitely, Maybe"". Fictional Telecom has reserved voice over IP numbers in the 206 (Seattle), 323 (Los Angeles), 415 (San Francisco), and 646 (New York) area codes for use in films, TV and radio dramas. Occasionally, a real number serves as an Easter egg, as the publisher directs a number they own to a promotional message, a contest line or other content which ties into the"
"and Lauren Hutton when they first meet. 311-555-2368 was also used in numerous episodes of ""The Bionic Woman"" as the private phone number at Jaime Sommers' coach house. At the end of a 1963 episode of ""Route 66"", titled ""Kiss the Monster, Make Him Sleep"", Linc calls his estranged father at a number having area code 311. The number 311-555-9845 was used for a radio station hotline in the first episode of the TV show ""A.L.F"". This area code is also used as fictional the area code for Sunnyvale, California (which is actually located in 408) in the 1983 movie"
"movies. Phone numbers of the format 020-91X-XXXX are reserved by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) for filming and drama use. The exchange prefix 555 in the North American Numbering Plan is reserved for Directory Assistance and information numbers. As these are not issued as standard business or residence lines, the use of a 555 number in fiction is almost universal. Only the 555-01xx range is officially reserved, though numbers outside this range are commonly used. The reservation applies to all geographic North American Numbering Plan area codes. 555 or a variant remains potentially valid outside North America; New Zealand"
"new digits ahead of the 55. However, elsewhere, as in the United States, fictitious telephone numbers are often used in films and on television to avoid disturbances by calls from viewers. For example, The United States 555 (KLondike-5) exchange code was never assigned (with limited exceptions such as 555-1212 for directory assistance). Therefore, American films and TV shows have used 555-xxxx numbers, in order to prevent a number used in such a work from being called. The film ""Bruce Almighty"" (2003) originally featured a number that did not have the 555 prefix. In the cinematic release, God (Morgan Freeman) leaves"
"Fictitious telephone number Ranges for fictitious telephone numbers are common in most telephone numbering plans. One of the main reasons these ranges exist is to avoid accidentally using real phone numbers in movies and television programmes because viewers frequently call the numbers used. In North America, the area served by the North American Numbering Plan (NANPA) system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer suitable for use"
"character replies that area codes would solve that problem and O'Brien's character drops the subject. The use of 555 numbers helps to avoid use of valid numbers in works of fiction or entertainment, which is problematic. Tommy Tutone's song ""867-5309/Jenny"" and the cinematic release of ""Bruce Almighty"" displaying 776-2323 as a number to call God both led to misdialed calls in multiple area codes. God's number was changed to a 555 exchange prefix in the video release of the movie. ""777-9311"" by The Time used Dez Dickerson's actual telephone number at the time the song was written, causing his phone"
"555 (telephone number) The telephone number prefix 555 is a central office code in the North American Numbering Plan, used as the leading part of a group of 10,000 telephone numbers, ""555-XXXX"", in each numbering plan area (NPA). It has traditionally been used only for the provision of directory assistance, when dialing NPA-555-1212. The central office code is also used for fictitious telephone numbers in North American television shows, films, video games, and other media in order to prevent practical jokers and curious callers from bothering telephone subscribers and organizations by calling telephone numbers they see in works of fiction."
"1997 and elsewhere by December 31, 1998. The North American Numbering Council (NANC) was directed to select the local number portability administrators (LNPAs), also referred to as number portability administrators, akin to the North American Numbering Plan administrator (NANPA). The toll-free telephone numbers with NPAs 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, and 844 have been portable through the RespOrg system since 1993. American television programs and films often use the central office code 555, or KL""amath"" 5 and KL""ondike"" 5 in older movies and shows, for fictitious telephone numbers, to prevent disturbing actual telephone subscribers if anyone is tempted to dial"
"original programme. Phone numbers whose exchanges begin with 1 are also occasionally used as fictional numbers. Under the North American Numbering Plan, all telephone exchanges run from 200 to 999 with similar restrictions on telephone area codes. Like the reservation on area codes with ""9"" as the middle area code digit, the restrictions on ""0"" and ""1"" are intended to facilitate a possible future expansion which would lengthen all North American numbers by one or more digits. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) has reserved blocks of numbers in most major areas for use in TV and radio dramas. Fictitious numbers"
"similar to sources of typographical error: The use of local telephone numbers in mainstream fictional works is problematic as the number will often belong to one or more real subscribers in various other area codes. Well-known fictional numbers like 867-5309 (Jenny's number, from a popular 1982 song) and 776-2323 (God's number in the 2003 cinema release of ""Bruce Almighty"") continue to receive misdialled calls years later. This is often avoided by using reserved or invalid numbers (such as 555 (telephone number)), or by displaying a real area code and number which belongs to the publisher of the fictional work. Inadvertent"
"are not limited to: missed rubbish collection, graffiti removal, License & Inspection inquiries, and pothole repairs. Philly311 receives over one million calls each year despite not being in service on a 24/7 basis, as is the case in other cities. In the United States, 311 was sometimes used as a fictitious area code in Bell System advertisements depicting telephones; often the phone in the advertisement would bear the specific number ""Area Code 311 555-2368"". This fictitious phone number was used in the 1979 horror film ""When a Stranger Calls""; in the opening of the television series ""The Rockford Files""; in"
"in fiction. Other areas have different fictitious telephone numbers. To be effective, it must not be possible to change a fictitious telephone number into a real one by adding or changing a few digits. Usually, the number must be unassigned in every area code within the numbering plan. Outside NANPA, special fictitious telephone numbers for mobile phones, premium-rate numbers or toll free numbers are sometimes assigned as well. In the I Love Lucy episode The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub (1951), Lucy dials up Sam Zabaglione, at Plaza 52099 (755-2099). Tommy Tutone's hit 1982 song ""867-5309/Jenny"" identifies a"
"2003 film ""Bruce Almighty"" used 776-2323 as a telephone number for God (played by Morgan Freeman). This number remains unassigned in 1-716 Buffalo (where the film is set). 776 is not a fictitious exchange in other area codes, where subscribers with the matching number were inundated with callers asking for ""God"". In Colorado the calls were misdirected to KDMN radio; in Sanford, North Carolina the number belongs to a church. 776-2323 was ultimately replaced with a 555 number for television airings of the movie and on most copies of the DVD. ""777-9311"" by The Time used Dez Dickerson's actual telephone"
"on October 11, 2009. The 747 area code conflicted with 10-digit Session Initiation Protocol addresses on some VoIP networks such as Gizmo5 (in the format 747NXXXXXX). Because of this conflict, some outgoing calls from VoIP networks using a 10-digit SIP address could have been mistaken for calls originating from the actual 747 area code. These addresses are no longer in use as Gizmo5 service was discontinued as of April 3, 2011. In the movie ""Pulp Fiction"", after Vincent accidentally shoots their associate in the face, Jules calls his friend Jimmy in order to find a place to hide their blood-soaked"
"a telephone number seen on screen. Occasionally, valid telephone numbers are used in contexts such as songs with varying intents and consequences. An example is the 1981 song ""867-5309/Jenny"" by Tommy Tutone, which is the cause of a large number of calls. Not all numbers beginning with 555 are fictional. For example, 555-1212 is the standard number for directory assistance. Only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are reserved for fictional use. Where used, these are often routed to information services; Canadian telephone companies briefly promoted 555-1313 as a pay-per-use ""name that number"" reverse lookup in the mid-1990s. North American Numbering Plan The"
"it the highest rating, (18-PL in the case of Malaysia). Since God contacts Bruce using an actual phone number rather than a number in the standard fictional 555 telephone exchange, several people and groups sharing this number subsequently received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting to talk to God, including a church in North Carolina (where the Minister was named Bruce), a Pastor in Northern Wisconsin and a man in Manchester, England. The producers noted that the number (776-2323) was not in use in the area code (716, which was never specified on screen) in the film's story but"
"555 number from a movie in the real world will always result in an error message when dialed from a phone in the United States. This reduces the likelihood of nuisance calls. QUincy(5-5555) was also used, because there was no Q available. Phone numbers were traditionally tied down to a single location; because exchanges were ""hard-wired"", the first three digits of any number were tied to the geographic location of the exchange. Until the early 1960s, many local telephone companies, as well as the North American Numbering Plan of 1947, prescribed telephone number formats that included the name of the"
"of viewers dial them; numbers prefixed 555 are usually used for such fictitious use, as they are not allocated to subscribers who can be disturbed by such nuisance calls. When the song 867-5309/Jenny was released, hundreds of calls were made to the various people and organizations all over the U.S. with that number. In the film ""Bruce Almighty"" a phone number belonging to a real user was shown, leading to a lawsuit. Prefixes ending in 11 (211, 311, 411, 511, 611, 711, 811 and 911) are disallowed prefixes because they are service codes. The prefix 958 and 959 are for"
"776-2323 on a pager for Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) to call if he needed God's help. The DVD changes this to a 555 number. According to Universal Studios, which produced the movie, the number it used was picked because it did not exist in Buffalo, New York, where the movie was set. However, the number ""did"" exist in other cities, resulting in customers' having that number receiving random calls from people asking for God. While some played along with the gag, others found the calls aggravating. The number in the Glenn Miller Orchestra's hit song ""Pennsylvania 6-5000"" (1940) is the"
"TWX area codes (510, 710, 810, 910) were decommissioned in 1981; Canada moved its remaining 1-610 numbers to area code 600 in 1992. Jimmy ""B-Rabbit"" Smith (Eminem) refers to area code 810 while free-styling as he fixes his car in the movie ""8 Mile"" to insult ""posers"" who live in upperclass southern Macomb County suburbs (which were part of the area code in 1995 when the movie was set) instead of the lower income area code 313, which serves Detroit and Wayne County. The number '810', which is the area code for Flint, Michigan, the band's hometown, was used in"
"Ontario. The Buffalo 716ers basketball team are named for the telephone area code. Calls to God may be placed to 776-2323, according to the cinema release of ""Bruce Almighty""; that number was removed from the video release & TV versions as, while it was (and remains) unassigned in Buffalo's area code 716, it was routinely misdialled to other area codes as a nuisance call to actual subscribers. Because of Olean's proximity to the 716/585 line, some Olean exchanges use the 585 area code (particularly those in use for Sprint Corporation cell phones). Area code 716 United States area code 716"
"the number were played. This type of scam was especially popular in the late '80s to early '90s in the United States before tougher regulations on the 900 number business forced many of these businesses to close. A 1-900 telephone number, in the North American Numbering Plan, has the form 1-900-###-####, and is often called a 900 number or a 1-900 number (""one-nine-hundred""). Area code 900 went into service January 1, 1971, but the first known to have been used in the United States for the ""Ask President Carter"" program in March 1977, for incoming calls to a nationwide talk"
"code. She is not happy with the new number, because she believes the area code makes it too long to dial. She is proved correct when attempting to give her number to a man in the park. Initially eager, he hesitates when he sees the 646 area code and asks if it is in New Jersey. Her response is, ""No, it's just like 212 except they multiplied every number by 3… and added 1 to the middle number."" He makes an excuse and walks off. When her neighbor Mrs. Krantz dies, Elaine manages to get her old 212 number. Mrs."
"used by Jim Rockford in the TV series ""The Rockford Files"" (as seen during the opening credits), in the TV series ""The Mod Squad"" (episode: ""And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them"") and the Ghostbusters (as seen during their TV commercial within the film). 555 numbers are mentioned directly in the 1993 action film ""Last Action Hero"", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. ""Danny Madigan"" (played by Austin O'Brien) tries to convince Schwarzenegger's character that he is inside a movie by pointing out the 555 exchange provides at most 9,999 available telephone numbers, insufficient for all the phone users in Los Angeles. Schwarzenegger's"
"the digits 496. For fictitious numbers in other areas the area code 01632 is reserved; this code is not in use, although 0632 was used for Newcastle upon Tyne until the late 1980s (63 = NE) and briefly reallocated for use by premium rate services in the 1990s. There are also reserved ranges for fictitious mobile, freephone, and premium rate numbers. The Post Office even produced dial centre labels for use in advertisements and film/TV with a mythical exchange called VINcent plus four digits. The numerical equivalent of VIN was 846 and all the caller got was the speaking clock"
"with 571 in 2000. Years after the introduction of mobile number portability, a large number of cell phone customers on the Virginia and Maryland sides of the metro have 202 numbers. Area code 202 Area code 202 is the North American telephone area code for Washington, D.C.. The area code was one of the original area codes established in October 1947 by AT&T in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). After the State of New Jersey with area code 201, the District of Columbia was the second Numbering Plan Area (NPA). NPAs that covered an entire administrative region received a"
"Area codes 805 and 820 Area codes 805 and 820 are California telephone area codes that were originally split from area code 213 in 1957. They include most or all of the California counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura, plus southernmost portions of Monterey County. On February 13, 1999, the area code was split, with area code 661 having been created for the inland areas, which are San Joaquin Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, and Antelope Valley. Area code 805 also serves the US military facilities in Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands with a Paso Robles prefix"
"is a reference to a Who song, ""Pinball Wizard"". The wall itself is a reference to the Berlin Wall, with ""New Springfield"" representing East Berlin. The two telephone area codes used in the episode are actual area codes in the North American Numbering Plan. 636 is assigned to phone numbers in the western suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, while 939 is primarily used by mobile phones on the island of Puerto Rico. Colin Jacobson of the DVD Movie Guide gave the episode a positive review saying ""Maybe it’s the low expectations that accompany 21st century Simpsons episodes, but “Tale” works"
"automobile, telling Vincent he hopes Jimmy is home ""because I ain't got no other partners in 818"". In the movie ""Go"", Ronna tells Claire not to ""go 818 on me"" when she acts reluctant to do some of the film's illegal/dangerous activities. Area codes 818 and 747 Area codes 818 and 747 are California area codes that primarily cover the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. Area code 818 was created in a split from area code 213 on January 7, 1984. On June 14, 1997, area code 818 was split to form area code 626 for most of"
"The traditional use of the office prefix 555 was for directory assistance. 555-1212 is one of the standard numbers for this purpose throughout the United States and Canada. Telephone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers by the 1960s. Two early examples include ""The Second Time Around"" (1961), which used 555-3485, and ""Panic in Year Zero!"" (1962), which used 555-2106. In television shows made or set in the mid-1970s or earlier, ""KLondike 5"" or ""KLamath 5"" reflects the old convention for telephone exchange names. Before ""555"" or ""KLondike-5"""
"code"", which became known in a short-form as area code. The area code is prefixed to each telephone number assigned. National telecommunication authorities use various formats and dialing rules for area codes. The size of area code prefixes may either be fixed or variable. Area codes in the NANP have three digits, while two digits are used in Brazil, one digit in Australia and New Zealand. Variable-length formats exist in multiple countries including: Argentina, Austria (1 to 4), Germany (2 to 5 digits), Japan (1 to 5), Mexico (2 or 3 digits), Peru (1 or 2), Syria (1 or 2)"
"portion of Volusia County that includes Deltona which was in 407 at the time (it is now in 386). However, no 321 numbers were issued in the 407 area from 2003 until 2015, when 321 numbers were issued for cell phones in Osceola, Orange, and Seminole counties due to high demand. 321 is the only area code in North America that is the overlay of one area code, and the sole area code elsewhere. 10-digit dialing is mandatory in both areas. 321 also is the area code used for SatCom Satellite Phone units. Harris/Caprock Corporation has maritime satellite calls going"