What are Alpha Numeric Telephone Numbers?
Article by Kieron James
If you have ever visited the US or have some familiarity with the US popular culture, you would have realised that the US system for marketing telephone numbers for businesses is hugely different from that in UK. The inclination for alpha numeric numbers is quite huge in the US. What alpha numeric numbers means is that you can use letters on the dialling pad instead of numbers. Some of the numbers when replaced by the corresponding letters on the dial pad makes for a very memorable word that is related to the business or the service being offered.
For example, take a taxi firm in the US. It would be quite advantageous for the firm to have a number like 1800 FASTCAB so that the number sticks to the mind of the customers and they do not have to memorise sequences of numbers. A person who wishes to call for a cab will more likely dial FASTCAB than rummage through the phonebook and find the actual number to dial.
Alpha numeric telephone numbers have been around for a very long time. They were and still are usually associated with publicity. There used to be many different ways of dividing the 26 alphabets into the 0