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I _really_ wanted the headline to read "2600 phone providers"

A lot of people won’t understand the reference. An explanation or a link would be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking#2600_hertz

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(ref: https://xkcd.com/1053/)

2600Hz, the frequency of the carrier tone. It’s a reference to phreakers of yore.

This place is claimed to be "hacker news"; an explanation of the significance of the number 2600 shouldn't be necessary. :-)

That's how I read it, originally. And my thought was "they're a phone provider now? That's kind of ironic"

I'd sign up in a second, they'd do shit right.

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