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Windows - qazmlp wrote: The international numbers are normally given as: + Where does the convention of '+' prefix come from?It is from one of the ITU Recommendations on worldwide telephonenumbering. Probably ITU Recommendation E.164. However, these days,MOST of the ITU documents require one to have a (paying) subscriptionaccount (with username and password) to download those documents. Andthe fees aren't necessarily inexpensive for individuals doing simpleresearch on such. Also, will it always be equal to "00"?No, it won't always be 00+, and I'll have some further info below. If no, where can I get the list of all the international prefixes?The actual document, the list, titled:"Dialing Procedures (International prefix, national (trunk) prefix andnational (significant) number) (in accordance with ITU-RecommendationE.164(05/97)" at this point in time is not "free". This list has been"free for the download" at various times in the past, but the7-May-2003 edition, which can be found at the ITU's website, does notseem to be free, nor have a "free" mirrored version at the ITU'swebsite at this point in time.The current one is associated with (chargeable) ITU Operation Bulletin#787 (dated 1-May-2003).TELECOM Digest Editor then noted: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It will not always be '00'; for example here in the USA the starting sequence is '11' for automatic dialing or '01' for operator assistance. The next digit is the zone code which runs from '1' for North America (usually) through '9' for other places around the world. I say 'usually' because there are a few places geographically in North America which are politically part of (and administered by) the telecom authorities in other nations.Ummmm, not exactly, Pat.The NANP (US/Canada/most-of-Caribbean) uses 011+ for station-sent-paidcalling access to points outside of the NANP. 01+ *IS* the code for"special billed" calls (although most NANP-based carriers now recommendusing 800-dialups and then follow THEIR instructions of 011+/01+ forcollect or card calls to "overseas/international" non-NANP locationswhen calling from the US/Canada).BUT ... when calling from the NANP, most (all?) carriers do *NOT*allow one to place intra-NANP calls "as if" one were dialing011+1+etc. Most (all?) carriers in the NANP only allow 1+/0+ accessfor such intra-NANP calls, even if accessing on an 800-dialup forcard/collect calls.As for the "World Zone" scheme, where the first (or only) digit of thecountry code "identifies" the "region" or "continent" in the world ...even *that* has breaking down in other parts of the world as well.'2', as the first digit of two/three digit country codes 20/27/2XXdoes not necessarily identify Africa/ south-east Atlantic/ etc.locations anymore.+299 is Greenland+298 is Faeroe Islands (also associated with Denmark)+297 is Arubaand at one time, it was expected that Trinidad (in the Caribbean)would break from +1/NANP and get its own Country Code +296. That neverhappened though, even though many ITU Country Code listed did show+296 for Trinidad.San Marino was also assigned +295 at one point for "future use", butwhen there were changes in Europe 10+ years ago (USSR/Russia,Yugoslavia, East Germany, etc), several ranges of "European" countrycodes had additional free'd up codes, and +378 was assigned orreserved for San Marino. +37 *used* to be East Germany (DDR), but whenthey were merged into +49 West Germany (BRD) both politically *AND*telephonically some 10+ years ago, the +37 country code was returnedto the ITU, and "expanded" into a range of TEN, THREE-digitcountry-codes now available for assignment, and all ten *have* beenassigned.There are some other anomalies as to European vs. Asiatic countries ofthe former Soviet Union. They have *tried* to make the European onesbegin of the +37X and +380 format, and the Asian ones of the +99Xformat, to follow '3' for Europe (which also has '4' country codes)and '9' for Asia, but I don't think that has been perfectly adheredto. But then again, the "bound
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