5 posts tagged with "Inside Scoop"

A typical scene in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district: walls covered with lists of "lucky" phone numbers for sale, each priced according to their auspicious digit combinations

After covering area codes in NYC and LA, I wanted to explore something truly unique in the world of telecommunications: Hong Kong's phone number market. While other cultures might value certain numbers for practical or sentimental reasons, Hong Kong takes it to another level entirely. In this former British colony phone numbers aren't just contact points - they're valuable assets that can sell for more than a year's rent, driven by deep-rooted cultural beliefs about numerical fortune.

We kicked off our "Inside Scoop" series with NYC, so it's only fitting we now jet across the coast to dive into Los Angeles, the most iconic city on the West Coast. 🏝️🌞 🌊

So just in case you weren't aware, tomorrow (June 13) is Ottawa, Canada's 613 Day! It turns out that celebrating a city's area code, similar to Atlanta's 404 Day, is quite a trend across North America. As a company that sells local phone numbers, we're certainly not complaining.

In honor of 404 Atlanta day I thought it would be a neat idea to share a rundown of the ATL and it's well known 404 area code.

So I thought it would be a neat idea to write a little about popular area codes -their history, availability, technical aspects, and perhaps the occasional pop culture reference.