- published: 30 Dec 2015
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A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator. As phone systems have grown and interconnected to encompass the world, telephone numbers have become longer. In addition to telephones, they now access other devices, such as computers and fax machines.
The number contains the information necessary to identify uniquely the intended endpoint for the telephone call. Each such endpoint must have a unique number within the public switched telephone network. Most countries use fixed length numbers (for normal lines at least) and therefore the number of endpoints determines the necessary length of the telephone number. It is also possible for each subscriber to have a set of shorter numbers for the endpoints most often used. These "shorthand" or "speed calling" numbers are automatically translated to unique telephone numbers before the call can be connected. Some special services have their own short numbers (e.g., 1-1-9, 9-1-1, 0-0-0, 9-9-9, 1-1-1, and 1-1-2 being the Emergency Services numbers for China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Sri Lanka; Canada and the United States; Australia; the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Macao, Bahrain, Qatar, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, Tobago; New Zealand; Kuwait and the European Union, respectively.)
Leave your phone number somewhere I can find it
What've we got to lose?
It's not over, now, just because it's over
We still go something good
And if I leave now it's not because I want to
I'd really like to stay
Think of me when you're feeling hot and lonely
I won't be far away, no, no
Call me up when the feeling strikes you
I'll call you up when I got nothing to do
And we won't have to be alone tonight
There's a war on but let's not let that stop us
We've got a lot to do
It's not over, now, just because it's over
We've still got something good
Call me up when the feeling strikes you
I'll call you up when I got nothing to do
And we won't have to be alone tonight
Tonight
Call me up when the feeling strikes you
I'll call you up when I got nothing to do
Call me up when you're feeling lonely
I'll call you up when I'm feeling that way too
Call me up when the feeling strikes you
I'll call you up when I got nothing to do
Call me up when you're feeling lonely
I'll call you up when I'm feeling that way too
Call me up