clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather) (10/29/90)
I just received British Telecom's latest international phone guide. A new feature in this is descriptions of the tones used in each country for ringing and engaged. Having merged this with my country codes list, I thought that readers might be interested. A few notes: BT list two country codes I haven't seen before: 905 Turkish Cyprus 290 St. Helena Six countries which are not directly diallable from the UK (and so no country code is given) are not listed in the last table of country codes I took from the Digest. Does anyone know their country codes ? Antarctica Australian Territory Chatham Islands Midway Island Pitcairn Islands Tristan da Cunha Wake Island In v10i763, Jim Rees asks for the shortest world-wide unique number. The guide gives the lengths of numbers for some countries. St. Helena (290) has three digit numbers! Country codes 247, 674, 678, and 680 have four digit numbers. Here is the up-to-date list. Lines beginning with # are comments. Lines beginning with + are continuation lines, and repeat the code and tone info. # Tone codes (first is ring, second is engaged): # A: double ring, repeated regularly (UK ringing tone) # B: equal length on/off tones - about 1Hz (UK & USA engaged tone) # C: slow equal length on/off tones # D: fast equal length on/off tones - 2Hz to 3Hz # E: tones separated by long pauses (USA ringing tone) # F: long tones separated by short pauses 1 NANP (USA, Canada, and the Carribean) +1 AB Anguilla, Dominica, Grenada & Carriacou, Montserrat, +1 AB St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & Grenadines, +1 AB Virgin Islands (UK) +1 CB Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, +1 CB Virgin Islands (US) +1 EB Barbados, Canada, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, +1 EB United States of America +1 EF Antigua & Barbuda +1 FD Turks and Caicos Islands 20 CF Egypt 210 (reserved for Morocco) 211 (reserved for Morocco) 212 EB Morocco 213 CB Algeria 214 (reserved for Algeria) 215 (reserved for Algeria) 216 EB Tunisia 217 (reserved for Tunisia) 218 CF Libya 219 (reserved for Libya) 220 AB The Gambia 221 CD Senegal 222 Mauritania 223 CB Mali 224 EC Guinea 225 CD Cote d'Ivoire 226 EB Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) 227 CF Niger 228 CB Togolese Republic 229 CB Benin 230 AB Mauritius 231 ED Liberia 232 CB Sierra Leone 233 ED Ghana 234 CF Nigeria 235 CB Chad 236 EB Central African Republic 237 EB Cameroon 238 CD Cape Verde 239 CB Sao Tome and Principe 240 Equatorial Guinea 241 EB Gabonese Republic 242 CD Congo 243 CD Zaire 244 CD Angola 245 EC Guinea-Bissau 246 Diego-Garcia 247 [EA]B Ascension Island [4 digit numbers] 248 AB Seychelles 249 Sudan 250 CB Rwandese Republic 251 ED Ethiopia 252 CB Somalia 253 EB Djibouti 254 AF Kenya 255 AD Tanzania including Zanzibar 256 [AC]E Uganda 257 CB Burundi 258 EB Mozambique 259 (assigned to Zanzibar, but use 255 54) 260 EF Zambia 261 CB Madagascar 262 CB Reunion (France) 263 AB Zimbabwe 264 AB Namibia 265 ED Malawi 266 AD Lesotho 267 AB Botswana 268 AB Swaziland 269 Mayotte Island (part of France) and Comoros 27 AB South Africa 290 FB St. Helena [3 figure numbers] 295 ED San Marino (not used at present - 39 541 used) 296 AB Trinidad and Tobago (not used at present - 1 809 used) 297 EB Aruba 298 ED Faroe Islands 299 ED Greenland 30 ED Greece 31 ED Netherlands 32 CD Belgium 33 CB France (Metropolitan), Andorra (33 628), Monaco (33 93) 34 ED Spain 350 AB Gibraltar 351 EB Portugal 352 ED Luxembourg 353 AB Eire (Irish Republic) 354 CD Iceland 355 Albania 356 AB Malta 357 AF Cyprus 358 ED Finland 359 ED Bulgaria 36 FD Hungary 37 ED Federal Republic of Germany (Eastern Portion, former DDR) 38 E[BD] Yugoslavia 39 ED Italy, San Marino (39 541, see also 295), Vatican City (39 6 6982) 40 CB Romania 41 EB Switzerland, Liechtenstein (41 75) 42 ED Czechoslovakia 43 ED Austria 44 AB United Kingdom 45 BD Denmark 46 ED Sweden 47 ED Norway 48 EB Poland 49 ED Federal Republic of Germany (Western Portion) 500 EB Falkland Islands 501 ED Belize 502 CD Guatemala 503 EB El Salvador 504 CD Honduras 505 EB Nicaragua 506 EB Costa Rica 507 EA Panama 508 CB St. Pierre et Miquelon (France) 509 [EF]B Haiti 51 EB Peru 52 ED Mexico 53 CB Cuba 54 EB Argentina 55 EB Brazil 56 AB Chile 57 ED Colombia 58 CD Venezuela 590 CF Guadeloupe (France), including St. Barthelemy and French side +590CF of St. Martin 591 EB Bolivia 592 AB Guyana 593 ED Ecuador 594 ED French Guiana 595 EB Paraguay 596 CB Martinique (part of France) 597 EB Suriname 598 EB Uruguay (East Republic) 599 EB Netherlands Antilles (Sint Maarten, Saba, Statia, Curacao, +599EB Bonaire) 60 AB Malaysia 61 AB Australia 62 EB Indonesia 63 EB Philippines 64 AB New Zealand 65 AB Singapore 66 ED Thailand 670 EB Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan) 671 EB Guam 672 AB Australian External Territories (Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, +672AB Cocos I.) 673 AB Brunei Darrusalm 674 EB Nauru [4 digit numbers] 675 AB Papua New Guinea 676 EB Tonga 677 DB Solomon Islands 678 ED Vanuatu (New Hebrides) [4 digit numbers] 679 AF Fiji Islands 680 EB Palau [4 digit numbers] 681 Wallis and Futuna 682 AB Cook Islands 683 Niue Island 684 EB American Samoa 685 AB Western Samoa 686 EB Kiribati Republic (Gilbert Islands) 687 CB New Caledonia 688 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands), Saipan 689 CB French Polynesia 690 Tokelan (Tokelau ?) 691 EB F.S. of Polynesia (Micronesia ?) 692 EB Marshall Islands 7 EB Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 81 EB Japan 82 FB Korea (Republic of) (South) 84 Viet Nam 850 ED Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North) 852 AB Hong Kong 853 EB Macao 855 Kampuchea (Cambodia) 856 Laos 86 CB China (866 assigned to Taiwan, but see also 886) 870 Reserved for Inmarsat 871 Inmarsat (Atlantic East) 872 Inmarsat (Pacific) 873 Inmarsat (Indian) 874 Inmarsat (Atlantic West) 875 Reserved for Inmarsat 876 Reserved for Inmarsat 877 Reserved for Inmarsat 878 Reserved for national mobile telephone purposes 879 Reserved for national mobile telephone purposes 880 AB Bangladesh 886 EB Taiwan (normally used, but not CCITT allocation - see 866) 90 EB Turkey, Turkish Cyprus (90 5) 91 AB India 92 [EA][BD] Pakistan 93 Afghanistan 94 AB Sri Lanka 95 EB Burma 960 AF Maldives 961 CB Lebanon 962 AB Jordan 963 EB Syrian Arab Republic 964 AB Iraq 965 EB Kuwait 966 EB Saudi Arabia 967 EB Yemen Arab Republic 968 FB Oman 969 ED Yemen Democratic Republic (united with Y.A.R. 967) 971 AB United Arab Emirates 972 EB Israel 973 AB Bahrain 974 AB Qatar 975 AC Bhutan 976 Mongolia 977 CE Nepal 98 ED Iran Clive D.W. 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scb@cs.brown.edu (Spyros C. Bartsocas) (10/31/90)
> BT list two country codes I haven't seen before: > 905 Turkish Cyprus This is not a country code. There is no such country as Turkish Cyprus. I assume BT refers to the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus (Cyprus has country code of 357). Country code 90 is Turkey, they are just advertising (for political reasons) how to reach a certain area of the teritory they control. Spyros Bartsocas scb@cs.brown.edu
Martin.Baines@uk.sun.com (Martin Baines) (11/02/90)
In article <14208@accuvax.nwu.edu>, scb@cs.brown.edu (Spyros C. Bartsocas) writes: |> > BT list two country codes I haven't seen before: |> > 905 Turkish Cyprus |> This is not a country code. There is no such country as Turkish |> Cyprus. I assume BT refers to the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus |> (Cyprus has country code of 357). Country code 90 is Turkey, they are |> just advertising (for political reasons) how to reach a certain area |> of the teritory they control. Oh no, politics again. The code refered to get you to the area that designates itself "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cypres". This may not be widely recognised as a country, but that is how it considers itself, so to say there is no such country is a bias statement: after all, Iraq does recognise the existance of Kuwait! Martin Baines Technical Account Wallah Sun Microsystems Ltd Cambridge UK Phone: Email UK: 0223 420421 JANET: Martin.Baines@uk.co.sun International: +44 223 420421 Other UK: Martin.Baines@sun.co.uk Internet: Martin.Baines@UK.sun.com