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Bell System Phone Label Code?


Allen Newman (anewmanagn@excite.com)
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:41:08 -0500

On the number cards/labels affixed to latter-decades' Bell System
phones, there was a letter M stamped like this:

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| AREA |
| CODE M 555-4321 |
| 595 |
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What did the M mean?

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