2006-09-26 05:27:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
Satan causes your fingers to dial his number
2006-09-26 05:28:46 · answer #1 · answered by KH 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Quite simply, phones are rarely used.
A HEAVY user of a phone would use it an hour out of the day. So, If you were to call that person, there's a 23 in 24 (over 96%) chance that it's not engaged. Most people use their phone far less than that. If you're just calling some random person (a wrong number SHOULD be random :-p) There should be better than a 96% chance nobody is on the line.
That's why if an awful lot of people are using the phone at the same time somewhere, you sometimes get a recording something to the effect that no circuits are available. The phone company has only so many connections out of an area, relying on the fact that phones for the most part go unused.
And a comment up above suggesting that a little over half of phone numbers are assigned to people is wrong. New area codes wouldn't be introduced to North America if that were the case.
2006-09-26 22:10:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to the large number of unused numbers there is always a good chance of getting an unused one when dialing at random. I would not say that you will never get a person. I'm pretty that much more than half the numbers are valid.
2006-09-26 12:30:50 · answer #3 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you get an engaged tone how do you know it's NOT a wrong number?
2006-09-26 12:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by psychoticgenius 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would you know its a wrong number if it's engaged?
2006-09-26 12:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by auskan2002 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If teflons nonstick how do they get it on the pan.
Why is there only one monopolies commission.
The world is full of questions,its answers that are hard to find.
2006-09-27 13:59:19 · answer #6 · answered by frankieboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people have nothing better to do than answer a phone some when phone rings it makes their day wrong number or not .
2006-09-26 12:29:57 · answer #7 · answered by g w 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How would you know it was a wrong number if nobody picked up?
2006-09-26 12:53:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sods law
2006-09-26 12:38:53 · answer #9 · answered by Izzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of the conspiracies that exists to undermine your self confidence. If the phone wasn't answered then no one would know how stupid you were.
2006-09-26 12:34:44 · answer #10 · answered by Lynn K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋