Re: CHAT: postcodes (and hurricanes)

En réponse à "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>:

>
> What I originally wanted to say, though, was that in Japan, you took
> your phone number with you. You were considered to have "bought the
> line", so if you moved from Kagoshima to Sapporo, it didn't matter;
> your phone number stayed the same, rendering the notion of the
> "exchange" rather moot. Now *that's* convenient. I've heard that we
> have the technology here in the good ol' US of A and that you *can*
> do it, but I've never heard of or seen it being done.
>
IIRC you can do that in Holland too, at least as long as you don't move out of
your prefix zone.

As far as I know it's impossible to do in France.

Christophe.

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