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Why businesses pay for prestigious old area codes

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Because your phone number needs to match your zip code's arrogance. Highly coveted legacy area codes in major metropolitan cities are entirely exhausted, creating a bizarre secondary gray market where businesses pay huge sums just to project the illusion that they have been established there since the nineties.

Why businesses pay for prestigious old area codes
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