re: "i (sic) hate it when companies give out there number as all letters.."

You may be interested to note that this way of stating phone no's is only just starting to take hold in Australia (well in Western Australia at least - but we are a mite behind the rest of the country). So much so that in my job (selling corporate satellite communications), we get a lot of Brownie points for innovation by offering our clients a number such as this.

One (wo)man's trash, another man's treasure!!

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