In telecommunications, an exhaust date refers to the date at which an area code will run out of numbers due to growth in the number of subscribers.
Projected exhaust dates have been moved up in recent years as population growth has been augmented by subscribers purchasing more devices (e.g. cellular phones) requiring dedicated phone numbers.
Famous quotes containing the words exhaust and/or date:
“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
“There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)