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Oh, that's valuable, they definitely can sell that on. Especially if they have a big list.

But what percentage of the physical bricks-and-mortar addresses are actually disused telephone exchanges or retired public toilets?

(whistles innocently)

There's an oxygen waster whose salary is conditional on bringing this data in. Whether that covers his paycheck, let alone brings profit is irrelevant to him. He is also the one responsible for reporting the profit numbers on that, so obviously the numbers will be cooked to indicate his work greatly benefits the business.

It's used to generate cold call lists