<story><title>Area code 710</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_710</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yodon</author><text>When I was in college in the &amp;#x27;80s, My roommate and I got curious about unused area codes (and&amp;#x2F;or prefixes? I forget). We started dialing some. Within about 15 minutes we stumbled on some government service with a scary-official sounding operator on the other end (I&amp;#x27;ve no idea if it was this service or a different one).&lt;p&gt;The really scary part was after dialing the number and encountering the operator, we were unable to hang up (any time we hung up and picked back up, the operator was still there, even after waiting about two minutes). Fortunately this was (a) at MIT which still had a central electromechanical telephone switch for student phone lines in the &amp;#x27;80s and (b) I had keys to the switch as a student phone repair tech.&lt;p&gt;I still remember grabbing my keys, running over to the switch, and physically pulling the relay contacts to release the call and prevent a trace to our location in case that was the motivation for holding the line (nowadays traces are digital and instantaneous, but when looking at old-school electromechanical switches you really did need time to trace the call physically through the relays).&lt;p&gt;Yes, we were aware the operator was probably just messing with us by showing he could hold our line against our will to discourage us from calling again, but it still scared the crap out of us just in case.</text></comment>
<story><title>Area code 710</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_710</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>813594</author><text>I have a GETS account too (I work in healthcare). T-Mobile provides WPS service free, whereas Verizon charges $5&amp;#x2F;month per enrolled line. More info here 
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