Rare and prestigious prefixes

[PhotoJim]

In North America, in addition to +1 212 for Manhattan, other prefixes that have become desirable are:

+1 310 - the area code for Hollywood, California and area. Surprisingly, the original Los Angeles code of +1 213 has not attained the cachet of +1 212.

+1 416 - Toronto city - is slowly becoming very desirable now that it is exhausted and all new numbers are in +1 647.

[Leon]

Polish mobile telecomunication has begun in 1992 with analog Centertel. Its prefix used to be 090 until "unification" of Polish telephone numbersto 9 digits. Today the prefix is 690. It is almost impossible to meet with the number beggining with 690.

GSM net came to Poland in 1996 with operators Plus GSM and Era. The first one got prefix 601, the second one 602. In 1998 Centertel started its GSM brand called Idea with prefix 501. These prefixes are believed to be the most prestigeous and usually assosiated with buisness users. They're pretty rare, yet still avalible on market - I have got brand new 601 prefix number on September last year for in my job.

And actually "mir doch scheiẞegal" what number I got I care of how much I pay

btw...

Originally Posted by borjeg

In Sweden the original series were:
(might be somewhat more prestigious, along with the other series starting with 070)

0705 Telia Mobile
0707 Comviq (Renamed to Tele2)
0708 Europolitan (Renamed to Vodafone and again to Telenor)

Additional series:

0700, 0701, 0702, 0703, 0704, 0706, 0709

In Poland 0700 is a synonym to a sex-telephone, as it's "premium number" with a very high minute-cost. It used to be popular in 1990's, yet still some remember tv ads with naked women singing "Zero - Seven - Zero - Zero..."

[rfranzq]

This idea of 'prestigious' prefixes or area codes is kind of laughable to me. Rare I can understand. There are people on eBay trying to sell people SIM cards with prestigious area codes in the US. His sales pitch is to make people especially desirous of these special area codes in order to get absurdly high prices. Anyone here who can activate a AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card; or H20 [and its ilk] for that matter could probably get one most of the time. Some area codes are not available or hard to get, but to pay a premium for one is beyond my comprehension. However, I have had some luck choosing Tru numbers that at least had a pattern or repetition of numbers to make easier remembering.

Originally Posted by PhotoJim

+1 310 - the area code for Hollywood, California and area. Surprisingly, the original Los Angeles code of +1 213 has not attained the cachet of +1 212.

Actually, Hollywood is in 323---a definitely non-prestigious area code. [The doughnut around the 213 doughnut hole.]
Area code 323
Area codes 310 and 424
These Wikipedia pages on area codes are actually well done and quite useful.

[PhotoJim]

Originally Posted by rfranzq

Actually, Hollywood is in 323---a definitely non-prestigious area code.

Oops, you're right. I meant Beverly Hills.

I have a Simple Calling phone with a 323 number. I don't mind it, but it's not a special number to be sure.

[rfranzq]

Originally Posted by PhotoJim

I have a Simple Calling phone with a 323 number.

I also have a SIMple Calling 323 number and a 213 also. Which works well for me as I am right next door to them. I haven't figured out a way to take advantage of the free voice mail on them though.