What does a phone number in the following format indicate?

Question

Phone numbers in the US have the following format.
(XXX) YYY-ZZZZ
I have received text messages from numbers that are 1YY. Normally you will never see a 1 as the first digit of the exchange. I believe that these are internal numbers used by the phone company. Can anyone confirm that or tell me what the number means?

Answer 1

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