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Given how ubiquitous phone numbers are and how long they've been around, it's
surprising how many false assumptions programmers continue to make about them.
1. **An individual has a phone number**
Some people do not own phones, or do not wish to provide you with their
telephone number when asked. Do not require a user to provide a phone number
unless it is essential, and whenever possible try and provide a fallback
to accommodate these users.
1. **An individual has only one phone number**
Obviously, this isn't necessarily true.
1. **A phone number uniquely identifies an individual**
It wasn't even that long ago that mobile phones didn't exist, and it was
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some parts of the world, this is still true, and relatives (or even friends)
share a single phone number.
1. **An individual has only one phone number**
Obviously, this isn't necessarily true.
1. **Phone numbers cannot be re-used**
Old phone numbers are recycled and get reassigned to other people.
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Some may be dialable only if the caller is a subscriber to a particular
telecom company.
1. **You can send a text message to any phone number**
A lot of people still only have a fixed-line telephone, which typically cannot
send or receive text messages.
**Tip:** Whenever possible, try and accommodate these
users by calling them with a voice message or voice prompts. Alternatively,
if your service requires sending text messages, verify that the number
can receive text messages after the user provides it.
1. **Only mobile phones can receive text messages**
Some service providers support sending and receiving text messages to fixed-line
numbers. There are also online services like Skype that can send and receive
text messages.
1. **There are only two ways to dial a phone number: domestically and from
overseas**


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