[comp.dcom.telecom] 'Auctioning' a telephone number?

hamilton@UXC.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Wayne Hamilton) (10/10/87)

re: auctioning a phone number

    according to our local phone book (IL Bell):

	Who owns my phone number?
	    Your telephone number is the property of Illinois Bell.
	We may change your number if it becomes advisable for us to
	do so in the conduct of our business.

    conceivably, if your number is so valuable, a business could buy
it from the phone company without your acquiescence.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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