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:
“Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent—unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it—we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“Ev’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City.”
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