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For USA, i totally agree, but here in USSR and then Russia, it was something completely unheard of until the 90s when imported phones started to appear.Huh? I'm not sure I've ever seen a phone, landline or cell, *without* letters. Decades before I was born, US cities used to have named telephone exchanges, where the first two or three digits were given a mnemonic, e.g, "Operator, get me CAstle 2-6417", meaning 222-6417. Letters on telephone dials goes back to *looooong* before cell phones or texting ever existed.