From:  Alan Jones <ajnews@exospan.com>
Date:  20 Mar 2024 19:06:18 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/cam.misc
Subject:  

Re: Cambridge North car parking

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On 20/03/2024 08:37, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message , at 18:02:21 on Tue, 19 Mar 
> 2024, The Natural Philosopher  remarked:
> 
>> *I* thought it was one of those cheap rate 0845 numbers.
> 
> They were invented by my telecoms consultant at UKOnline (he also worked 
> for Demon) in 1995, which is long after the period we were originally 
> discussing.

What was invented? I thought non-geographic numbers were invented by 
AT&T (Bell Labs?) when they developed a technique to translate dialled 
numbers by lookup during call setup. It was one of their most lucrative 
patent families.