Is it normal for a cell phone to have 11 digits?

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OK heres the story, i met this girl online, we like each other and we just exchanged numbers. She gave me a number and said to text her but the number had 11 digits in it. Can a cell phone have 11 digits?? and Plus when she texts she always texts in all CAPS and one of the first things she said was NOT TO CALL HER. Idkk if this is her real number or some fake thing idk. Could this be her real number or is she fucking with me??

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  • Cobrakitnu
    12 years ago

    Ask her what you asked us.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    She's from Bahrain.

    Or Venus.

    All women are from Venus.

    We use 11 digits there.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      What's the eleventh finger for, carolann?

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      • [Old Memory]
        12 years ago

        Hitting the really high notes.

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  • SATC
    12 years ago

    English ones have 11 digits

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  • randomjelly
    12 years ago

    All cells have 11.

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  • fissionmailed
    11 years ago

    It's fake bro, forget about her and move on

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  • georgienne
    12 years ago

    I 'found out' about postcodes last year. It kind of blew my mind a little.

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  • DannyKanes
    12 years ago

    We only have 10 digits in Australia

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      That's because your phones are so small and upside down.

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  • ilovesuperman
    12 years ago

    Most numbers are 11 digits if you write it right. Ex 1(561)786-4537. See

    P.S
    Not a real number

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    12 years ago

    When I lived in Japan I had a 10 digit phone number plus a 2 digit country code.

    So if you were calling me from the US you'd have to use a 12 digit number.

    It sounds like she was in another country. Thus if you called her it would be very expensive, more expensive than just text messages.

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  • I_steal_free_bread
    12 years ago

    Either she played you or she accidently made a typo

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  • dappled
    12 years ago

    Mine has eleven. Friends in other countries have eleven. The only ones that don't have eleven (that I know of) are those that are tie-lined to a PABX by an organistion for internal communications. They have five, six or seven (by the tie, but still have eleven for the untied number which is largely unused).

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    • howaminotmyself
      12 years ago

      Ok, I'm feeling a bit dumb. What's this eleventh digit? I've been 10 digit dialing for a decade now and only require an eleventh from a landline on a long distance call. Is this an assumed 1 at the beginning?

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      • dappled
        12 years ago

        The leading digit is historical and should start dying off (as it probably already has for you). For any telephone number (not just mobiles), the first digit is an instruction to the exchange to tell it that you are requesting to be connected to a number referenced by another exchange. It's 1 in the U.S. but it's 0 here.

        If I were phoning the U.S., I don't dial the 1 because I've already started the number with a 0 to tell British exchanges to expect a number. Confusingly, I then have to dial 1 anyway because it's your international dialling code (now 01 instead of 1 because of a change to our systems). The 1 is purely a coincidence. A better example would be Brazil. Their mobile phone numbers start with a 6, 7, 8 or 9 so to dial them, I'd dial 00-55-6xxxxxxxxx and none of the first four digits are part of the number. The first is an instruction to the exchange, the second another instruction that I'm dialling internationally, and the next two the country code.

        America, Canada and Puerto Rico were a little greedy in snaffling a single digit number as their dialling code because it means 10 to 19 and 100 to 199 are out of commission (exchanges only go for the first numbers that allow a connection rather than work on the entire length). You'd expect the only other country to grab 10% of all the codes would be Russia, China, India, or maybe Brazil. Oddly enough the only other country that does is Kazakhstan, and I've never been able to find out why.

        Sorry for the long post - stuff like this fascinates me. Don't even get me started on postcodes, road names, or the communication segment of the EM spectrum. I have genuinely listened transfixed for hours to beeps coming from Russian satellites.

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    • dappled
      12 years ago

      Organistion?

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  • grandmalicker
    12 years ago

    It's probably her email or maybe an iPod app

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