A human-readable phone number. No validation is performed because phone numbers have many
different formats - local, long distance, domestic, international, internal extension, TTY, VOIP,
SMS, and alternative networks like Skype, XFire and Roger Wilco. They all have their own
numbering and addressing formats.
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