On Telephone why "ABC" starts From 2 and not from 1 ?

India
December 20, 2007 11:41am CST
*Scratching HEAD * :O
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arun057
@arun057 (281)
• India
20 Dec 07
because 1 depicts special characters.. like '.' '-' '+' , etc
kraize_jatt
@kraize_jatt (72)
• India
20 Dec 07
hmmm y only 1 is kept for special characters ? y not 0 : "space", "." etc ?? btw thanks responding :)
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arun057
@arun057 (281)
• India
20 Dec 07
0 is kept for space because it is easily accessible and we use space a lot...
crackhead
@crackhead (1826)
• India
4 May 08
Well never thought of all these alphabets on a telephone. Thats kind of a good discussion. Thanks for that.
9Mace9
@9Mace9 (15)
• South Africa
8 Apr 08
lol neva thought abt that before, maybe they wanted to finish the alphabete on 9 =P.