[comp.dcom.telecom] Tones and Country Codes

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


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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
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