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Teen gets PM's mobile phone calls
Norway's system of recycling mobile phone numbers has been called into question after a 16-year-old girl complained that she keeps getting calls for the Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, reports The Inquirer. "Camilla Reiersrud, from Hokksund, was given the phone for Christmas. What she didn’t know was that phone number that came with her NetCom subscription used to belong to the Prime Minister. The calls Camille received were mostly from hacks who failed to update their contact books and were quite surprised to find themselves talking to a young woman instead. Call number recycling is touted as a method solving the problem of phone numbers running out, or area-code exhaustion. It is not used in many countries for the above reason." In a related cell-phone-recycling story in the US, a senior citizen in Michigan was stuck with a huge bill because whoever ended up with his donated phone managed to rack up over a thousand dollars worth of charges. cf Donate a used cellphone, get a bill for $1,200 |
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