Looked this up after watching Better Call Saul and noticing a phone number in one of the episodes!

  • akaCat@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    Once upon a time, the 555 exchange wasn’t assigned to real telephone subscribers. So it was it was part of fictional phone numbers that wouldn’t annoy users. The Verizon thing must have come later.

  • bfg9k@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Not sure why they would open these numbers up for access anyway, a lot of PABXes are programmed to recognize the 555 prefix as bogus and just drop the call without even attempting to dial it over national lines

  • delial@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’ve always hated 555 numbers, because they immediately dispel the illusion. They should just use invalid numbers that have an area code that starts with 1 or, better yet, an exchange code that starts with 1.