Guest Plastic Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I just got a cellphone. The number begins with 713-240. I want to know where in Houston the 240 numbers are located. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Cell phone numbers are not assigned to neighborhoods. They are citywide. All 240 numbers are cell numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 240 is owned by aerial communications, which i think is t-mobile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 240 is owned by aerial communications, which i think is t-mobilei thought verizon bought aerial since the Aerial Theater changed to the Verizon Wireless Theater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 i thought verizon bought aerial since the Aerial Theater changed to the Verizon Wireless Theater i am not comepletely sure - the information i got was from a prefix locator... from wikipedia: "T-Mobile USA was previously known as VoiceStream Wireless (which in turn had acquired the cellular carriers PowerTel, Aerial, PrimeCo (formerly GTE Wireless) and Omnipoint)." it seems through mergers and such they are all connected somehow, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 i am not comepletely sure - the information i got was from a prefix locator...from wikipedia: "T-Mobile USA was previously known as VoiceStream Wireless (which in turn had acquired the cellular carriers PowerTel, Aerial, PrimeCo (formerly GTE Wireless) and Omnipoint)." it seems through mergers and such they are all connected somehow, though. What? I have had the same number since I moved back to Houston in 1996. Originally, it came from GTE Wireless. In the late 90s, GTE was taken over by Verizon. I don't know where PrimeCo being formerly GTE Wireless comes from, but it is untrue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Also, cell numbers were deregulated so that you can take your number with you, so you can't state that all 240 numbers are tmobile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 (edited) geez louise. i am not stating facts! i just quoted something from wikipedia (which is based on a wiki!) oh, and this: http://www.fonefinder.net/ http://www.fonefinder.net/findome.php?npa=...umber&cityname= Edited January 10, 2006 by sevfiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestGrayGuy Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I rode this ride. Aerial became Voicestream which became T-Mobile. The Verizon Wireless Theater buyout of Aerial Theater is not related to this matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I rode this ride. Aerial became Voicestream which became T-Mobile. The Verizon Wireless Theater buyout of Aerial Theater is not related to this matter. thank you for the clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I rode this ride. Aerial became Voicestream which became T-Mobile. The Verizon Wireless Theater buyout of Aerial Theater is not related to this matter.Yep..seems you are right...found this in the chron archivesfrom 07/24/2000VoiceStream bought Aerial Communications last fall for $3.3 billion in stock, picking up customers throughout the central part of the nation. Aerial said Houston is its largest market.from 01/26/2002The Aerial Theater now is the Verizon Wireless Theater. The popular Bayou Place concert venue changed names this week after Clear Channel Entertainment signed a seven-year contract with the wireless service provider. Clear Channel also operates the Verizon Wireless Ampitheater in San Antonio.from 01/31/2002Operator Clear Channel Entertainment announced the change days before the Strokes took the stage at the newly dubbed Verizon Wireless Theater (it still isn't rolling off the tongue with ease). The move comes more than two years after the former name-holder, Aerial Communications, was purchased by VoiceStream Wireless Corp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I think its only in the suburbs are the next 3 #s part of it.I got a cell phone around the same time as my family, and all our digits are the same, except the last 4 numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 I think its only in the suburbs are the next 3 #s part of it.I got a cell phone around the same time as my family, and all our digits are the same, except the last 4 numbers.Because of the proliferation of cell phones and fax machines, there are new phone prefixes being created faster than you can keep up with. It's going too fast for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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