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Prince Edward Island has 2-1-1 ghosts? Telephone circuit vampires? Man, those 902ers... -- Charlene.fic 03:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
"In the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, for unknown reasons, when 2-1-1 is dialed it causes a busy signal to occur, and the dialer's telephone line will "go dead" for several minutes afterward."
HawkerTyphoon. You are erasing more up-to-date information. Do you have a reason?
My feeling is that in the U.S., the original use of 211 was for placing long distance calls, and this remained as the primary use of 211 for several decades, thus should be the first listed use in 2-1-1#United_States (rather than the current mention of this as used by New York Telephone for an "automated credit request"). We ought to have some time range ... this Indiana Bell newspaper ad is from 1921, but I believe 211 continued to be used for long distance into the 1960s and perhaps later. Fabrickator ( talk) 21:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
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Prince Edward Island has 2-1-1 ghosts? Telephone circuit vampires? Man, those 902ers... -- Charlene.fic 03:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
"In the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, for unknown reasons, when 2-1-1 is dialed it causes a busy signal to occur, and the dialer's telephone line will "go dead" for several minutes afterward."
HawkerTyphoon. You are erasing more up-to-date information. Do you have a reason?
My feeling is that in the U.S., the original use of 211 was for placing long distance calls, and this remained as the primary use of 211 for several decades, thus should be the first listed use in 2-1-1#United_States (rather than the current mention of this as used by New York Telephone for an "automated credit request"). We ought to have some time range ... this Indiana Bell newspaper ad is from 1921, but I believe 211 continued to be used for long distance into the 1960s and perhaps later. Fabrickator ( talk) 21:36, 27 January 2024 (UTC)