mshiels@uunet.uu.net (05/27/90)
20- Egypt 210- (reserved for Morocco) 211- (reserved for Morocco) 212- Morocco 213- Algeria 214- (reserved for Algeria) 215- (reserved for Algeria) 216- Tunisia 217- (reserved for Tunisia) 218- Libya 219- (reserved for Libya) 220- Gambia 221- Senegal 222- Mauritania 223- Mali 224- Guinea 225- Cote d'Ivoire 226- Burkina Faso 227- Niger 228- Togolese Republic 229- Benin 230- Mauritius 231- Liberia 232- Sierra Leone 233- Ghana 234- Nigeria 235- Chad 236- Central African Republic 237- Cameroon 238- Cape Verde 239- Sao Tome & Principe 240- Equatorial Guinea 241- Gabonese Republic 242- Congo 243- Zaire 244- Angola 245- Guinea-Bissau 246- Diego-Garcia 247- Ascension 248- Seychelles 249- Sudan 250- Rwandese Republic 251- Ethiopia 252- Somalia 253- Djibouti 254- Kenya 255- Tanzania 256- Uganda 257- Burundi 258- Mozambique 259- Zanzibar (Tanzania) 260- Zambia 261- Madagascar 262- Reunion (French Republic) 263- Zimbabwe 264- Namibia 265- Malawi 266- Lesotho 267- Botswana 268- Swaziland 269- Mayotte Island 27- South Africa 297- Aruba 298- Faroe Islands 299- Greenland 30- Greece 31- Netherlands 32- Belgium 33- France, Andorra, Monaco 34- Spain 350- Gibraltar 351- Portugal 352- Luxembourg 353- Eire (Irish Republic) 354- Iceland 355- Albania 356- Malta 357- Cyprus 358- Finland 359- Bulgaria 36- Hungary 37- East Germany 38- Yugoslavia 39- Italy, San Marino 40- Romania 41- Switzerland, Liechtenstein 42- Czechoslovakia 43- Austria 44- United Kingdom 45- Denmark 46- Sweden 47- Norway 48- Poland 49- West Germany 500- Falkland Islands 501- Belize 502- Guatemala 503- El Salvador 504- Honduras 505- Nicaragua 506- Costa Rica 507- Panama 508- St Pierre & Miquelon 509- Haiti 51- Peru 52- Mexico 53- Cuba 54- Argentina 55- Brazil 56- Chile 57- Colombia 58- Venezuela 590- Guadeloupe 591- Bolivia 592- Guyana 593- Ecuador 594- Guiana (French) 95- Paraguay 596- French Antilles 97- Suriname 598- Uruguay (East Republic) 599- Netherlands Antilles 60- Malaysia 61- Australia 62- Indonesia 63- Philippines 64- New Zealand 65- Singapore 66- Thailand 670- Marianna Islands 671- Guam 672- Christmas, Cocos, Norfolk Is. 673- Brunei Darrusalm 74- Nauru 675- Papua New Guinea 676- Tonga 677- Solomon Islands 678- Vanuatu 679- Fiji Islands 680- Palau 681- Wallis and Fortuna 682- Cook Islands 683- Niue Island 684- American Samoa 685- Western Samoa 686- Kiribati 687- New Caledonia 688- Tuvalu, Saipan 689- French Polynesia 690- Tokelan 691- F.S. of Polynesia 692- Marshall Islands 7- The Soviet Union 81- Japan 82- South Korea 84- Vietnam 850- North Korea (Democratic Rep)852- Hong Kong 853- Macao 855- Kampuchea 856- Laos 86- China 871- Inmarsat (Atlantic) 872- Inmarsat (Pacific) 873- Inmarsat (Indian) 880- Bangladesh 886- Taiwan 90- Turkey 91- India 92- Pakistan 93- Afghanistan 94- Sri Lanka 95- Burma 960- Maldives 961- Lebanon 962- Jordan 963- Syrian Arab Republic 964- Iraq 965- Kuwait 966- Saudi Arabia 967- Yemen Arab Republic 968- Oman 969- Yemen Democratic Republic 971- United Arab Emirates 972- Israel 73- Bahrain 974- Qatar 976- Mongolia 977- Nepal 98- Iran [Moderator's Note: The above are always prefaced with either 011 (for direct dialing) or 01 (for credit card, collect or third number billing). Then a city code, comparable to a USA area code, follows the above in most cases, prior to the actual local number. Countries not listed above are not dialable; calls for those points are made through the operator. PT]
rdt139z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) (05/30/90)
[ lots of country codes deleted ] > 974- Qatar 976- Mongolia > 977- Nepal 98- Iran > [Moderator's Note: The above are always prefaced with either 011 (for ****** > direct dialing) or 01 (for credit card, collect or third number > billing). Then a city code, comparable to a USA area code, follows the > above in most cases, prior to the actual local number. Countries not > listed above are not dialable; calls for those points are made through > the operator. PT] Patrick, Patrick! PLEASE remember that your group is read all over the world. Your comment above is true for callers in the USA, and practically nowhere else. International access codes differ from country to country. For example, in Australia we have 0011 for ordinary IDD, 0012 for IDD with ring-back prices, 0015 for IDD with echo disabled, etc. etc. _______ Jim Breen (rdt139z@monu6.cc.monash.oz) Dept of Robotics & /o\----\\ \O Digital Technology. Chisholm Inst. of Technology /RDT\ /|\ \/| -:O____/ PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia O-----O _/_\ /\ /\ (ph) +61 3 573 2552 (fax) +61 3 573 2748
"John R. Covert 30-May-1990 0816" <covert@covert.enet.dec.com> (05/30/90)
Michael's list was actually not quite as correct or complete as the official list based on the CCITT Blue Book which I posted in V10#85 back in February. But since it is substantially complete, I'll not post that again, and will limit myself to a few comments: 259, though assigned to Zanzibar, is not in use. Zanzibar is reached via Tanzania, 255, with city code 54. This gives us a hint about what is likely to happen with Yemen. Since Aden was not diallable from any known western country, but Yemen was, it is likely that the expansion of service into the united country will use the Yemen code, but it is unlikely that the combined country will give up the extra code, keeping it reserved for future use. Though we don't know what will happen with Germany, there is the possibilty that Germany will make the East German codes diallable as West German codes by prefixing them with "3" ("30" is currently the only "3" code in use in West Germany, and is used for Berlin). But this does not mean that Germany will give up 37. Michael lists 269 as Mayotte. Now we get into how politics affects the assignment of country codes. Mayotte is an island in a group of islands known as the Comoros Islands. In 1975, the Comoros unilaterally declared independence from France and formed the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros. The island of Mayotte voted to remain part of France, an action which is not recognized by the Comoros, nor by the United Nations, which tends to look askance at colonialism, even when the residents indicate that they want to remain part of a first world country. Thus the CCITT Blue Book lists the code as assigned to the Comoros, though, in fact, it is only usable to reach Mayotte, since the rest of the Comoros have not made any telephonic progress since separating from France. (Another example of politics affecting the assignment of country codes is the fact that the CCITT does not list the fact that most countries use "886" to reach Taiwan. When Taiwan first became diallable, it was dialled using "86", since it was the U.N. member at the time. It lost the code as part of being replaced in the U.N. with PRC representatives. The PRC has informed the CCITT that "866" has been assigned to Taiwan, but I would not expect anyone to use that instead of "886".) Continuing with far-flung parts of France, Michael lists 590 as Guadeloupe, but 596 as "French Antilles" which is not really correct. The French Antilles consist of the two French Departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Unlike Mayotte, which is a territory, these two departments are as much a part of France as any other department in metropolitan France. 590 is Guadeloupe, which includes the French side of St. Martin, the island of St. Barthelemy, the islande of Marie-Galante, and Guadeloupe itself. 596 is just Martinique. There is still six digit dialing between 590 and 596, though the correct code must be dialled from outside. BTW, dialling metropolitan France from these islands is not done by dialling the international access code "19" and then "33", since the French dialling pattern uses that sequence followed by another country code to indicate that you want the French overseas operator for that country. Instead, you dial as within France: just "16" and the number (with the leading "1" for the Paris region). 670 is listed as "Mariana Islands" but is in fact the "Northern Mariana Islands" including the principal island of Saipan. Michael's list does not include two assignments that I suspect may not be used for a while, if ever. San Marino, though still diallable with the Italian country code 39 and city code 541 has been assigned its own code: 295. And Trinidad and Tobago has been assigned 296, although the manager of their network planning department has told me that they have no plans to leave the North American Numbering Plan area code 809 -- they just asked for the code and got it. And finally, though not confirmed, Bhutan has reportedly been assigned the code 975. A backwards country from both a transportation and communications standpoint, it is not likely to be diallable soon. The moderator added a note that Michael's list included only diallable countries. In fact, with the exceptions noted above, it included all countries which have codes assigned, whether diallable or not. The only place listed as a political entity in the Britannica 1990 Book of the Year which does not have a code assigned is Pitcairn Island. There are a large number of countries not diallable, and, as a reader from Australia pointed out, the list of diallable countries differs from country to country. It's not even the same between the U.S. and Canada. For example, Canada (and most of the rest of the world) can dial Cuba (53), whereas the U.S. can only dial Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Station (53 99), which is not dialable from anywhere else! On the other hand, Canada cannot dial St. Pierre and Miquelon (508) even though it's only a couple of miles away from the coast, yet most of the rest of the world can! The following list of codes includes all of those codes dialable from the U.S. via the major carriers. AT&T serves the most countries; but Sprint makes the appearance of doing so by sending calls to countries it does not serve via AT&T circuits. In addition, there are three places to which AT&T only provides operator service, whereas Sprint provides direct dial service. These are indicated in parens. The problem is that Sprint has never notified the local operating companies that these codes should be opened in local central offices; thus they are not diallable except in a few places (mostly U.S. West) where the local operating company has decided to put all codes in CCITT E.163 in, whether anyone serves them or not. It should also be noted that AT&T serves every country in the world, although those not listed are served by operators only, whereas Sprint and other OCCs only serve diallable countries. AT&T has announced that dial service to Mayotte (currently Sprint only) is coming. 20 212 213 216 218 220 221 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 237 238 241 243 247 248 250 251 253 254 255 256 260 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 (269) 27 297 298 299 30 31 32 33 34 350 351 352 353 354 356 357 358 359 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 51 52 5399 54 55 56 57 58 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 670 671 673 (674) 675 676 (677) 679 684 685 686 687 689 691 692 7 81 82 852 853 86 871 872 873 880 886 90 91 92 94 95 960 962 964 965 966 967 968 971 972 973 974 977 98 And finally, Colin Plumb asks which countries are part of the North American Intergrated Numbering Plan Area (code 1). They are: Canada, USA including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Bequia, Mustique, Prune (Palm) Island, Union Island), Trinidad and Tobago. What you will note about this list is that it includes the USA plus all members of the British Commonwealth in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. This definitively (at least for now) answers the question of why some places are in +1 809 and why some have their own code. /john P.S.: Michael's other list indicates that 905 and 706 "were" Mexico. From his point of view, outside the U.S., they never were. From the U.S. they still are and will be until discontinued in February 1991.
"Peter J. Dotzauer" <pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu> (05/30/90)
In article <8353@accuvax.nwu.edu> "Michael A. Shiels" <tmsoft!mshiels@ uunet.uu.net> writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 392, Message 2 of 5 > 66- Thailand 670- Marianna Islands > 687- New Caledonia 688- Tuvalu, Saipan Saipan is a part of the Mariana Islands. Not only that, it comprises about 90 percent of its population. The rest is mainly on Tinian and Rota. Why does Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands, have an area code together with a relatively distant country of 9 South Pacific Atolls (Tuvalu), while the rest of the Marianas has another area code. > 689- French Polynesia 690- Tokelan ^^^^^^^ Should be Tokelau (a New Zealand territory). Peter Dotzauer, Analyt.Cart.& GIS, Dept.of Geogr., OSU, Columbus, OH 43210-1361 TEL +1 614 292 1357 FAX +1 614 292 6213 FIDO 1:226/330 CCnet mapvxa::pjd INTERNET pjd+@osu.edu or pjd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu [128.146.1.5] BITNET pjd@ohstvmb UUCP ...!osu-cis!hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!pjd
Steve Pershing <sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> (05/31/90)
Now that we have a list of world-wide country codes, does anyone have access to a relatively complete world-wide list of regional/city codes to go along with them? It would be a useful posting for future reference (unless they change often). Internet: sp@questor.wimsey.bc.ca |POST: 1027 Davie Street, Box 486 Phones: Voice & FAX: +1 604 682-6659 | Vancouver, British Columbia Data/BBS: +1 604 681-0670 | Canada V6E 4L2 [Moderator's Note: It's not that they 'change often' (although they do change), but rather, the inefficiency and wasted space of printing such a humongous and time-consuming (for you to type in, for readers to view, and most important! for me to edit) list in this forum. AT&T or the long-distance carrier of your choice has lots of books, charts and printed reference materials you can order if you feel you must have a list of everything, everywhere. The front pages of your local phone book probably contain many city codes for starters. PT]
rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (06/01/90)
In article <8459@accuvax.nwu.edu>, "John R. Covert 30-May-1990 0816" <covert@covert.enet.dec.com> writes: > And finally, though not confirmed, Bhutan has reportedly been assigned > the code 975. A backwards country from both a transportation and > communications standpoint, it is not likely to be diallable soon. In my experience, Bhutan is not diallable even from inside Bhutan. I did get through once by operator from New Delhi though. I had to make an appointment the day before.
David Tamkin <0004261818@mcimail.com> (06/01/90)
John Covert wrote in volume 10, issue 400: |Colin Plumb asks which countries are part of the North American |Intergrated Numbering Plan Area (code 1). They are: | Canada, USA including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, | Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, British | Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic, | Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, | St. Vincent and the Grenadines [Bequia, Mustique, Prune (Palm) Island, | Union Island], Trinidad and Tobago. |What you will note about this list is that it includes the USA plus all |members of the British Commonwealth in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. |This definitively (at least for now) answers the question of why some |places are in +1 809 and why some have their own code. If you want it to be definitive, even just for now, that rule will have to be "the USA, the Dominican Republic, and all members of the British Commonwealth in the Caribbean and North America." The rule as John stated it leaves the Dominican Republic out but includes the UK! (If "North Atlantic" meant only islands such as Bermuda and the Bahamas and not coastal countries on the continents, then the rule didn't add the UK but it excluded both the Dominican Republic and Canada.) Anyone who considers Bermuda and the Bahamas not to be parts of North America is welcome to specify them, and if Belize is in the British Commonwealth, anyone who deems it in North America is equally welcome to make a specific exception for it. Ah well; the definitive rule didn't turn out so simple after all. Peter Dotzauer wrote in the same issue, quoting Michael Shiels's original article on the subject: :> 670- Mariana Islands :> 688- Tuvalu, Saipan :Saipan is a part of the Mariana Islands. Not only that, it comprises :about ninety per cent of its population. The rest is mainly on Tinian :and Rota. Why does Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Mariana :Islands, have an area code together with a relatively distant country of :nine South Pacific atolls (Tuvalu), while the rest of the Marianas has :another area code? It doesn't. Michael's list was in error. Saipan is in country code 670 along with the rest of the Northern Marianas. David Tamkin P. O. Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 +1 708 518 6769 MCI Mail: 426-1818 CIS: 73720,1570 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN +1 312 693 0591
rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) (06/03/90)
In article <8462@accuvax.nwu.edu> Patrick writes: > [request for post of list of city codes worldwide] >The long-distance carrier of your choice has lots of books, charts >and printed reference materials you can order if you feel you must >have a list of everything, everywhere. The front pages of your local >phone book probably contain many city codes for starters. PT] Speaking of the local phone book, I've noticed something the last few years: the list of foreign codes has gotten SHORTER and SHORTER each year -- I guess the idea is that Pac*Bell doesn't get much revenue *directly* from international calls, so they won't put much effort into helping you. For example, the Oakland book lists 38 country codes and a total of about 83 city codes, for the entire world. The omissions are rather strange, too: Finland is listed but not Sweden. Other notable omissions are Turkey, Egypt, Argentina, Thailand, and all of Africa except South Africa. Vatican City and Monaco rate listings as country codes, but not Saudi Arabia. Our Swedish friends will be happy to know that they are the only country the San Francisco directory adds to Oakland's list, with 5 city codes (second only to UK). Four years ago, my San Jose directory had 3.5 pages of listings for country/city codes. Why chop the list??? Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu [Moderator's Note: Maybe they found it as much a pain in the fingers to type, edit, proof-read and respond to complaints about as I do. Full scale lists of this size have little value for most people. If they appear in some one single authoritative document someplace, let it go at that. PT]
Kee Hinckley <nazgul@alphalpha.com> (06/04/90)
>> 977- Nepal 98- Iran >> [Moderator's Note: The above are always prefaced with either 011 (for > ****** >> direct dialing) or 01 (for credit card, collect or third number >> billing). Then a city code, comparable to a USA area code, follows the Last time I tried (a few years ago) Iran didn't accept credit card calls. My paranoid guess is that it's because they can't easily track who's calling; I know they listen in on most calls. I discovered the credit card restriction by accident. I was on vacation in California with my wife (prior to our marriage) when the Navy shot down the Iranian airliner. We were calling to see if her father had been piloting it (ulp, fortunately not). The operator tried a credit card call and it was refused, so we switched to billing my home phone. We then actually managed to get through to Iran (quite a feat on a payphone) only to be interrupted by a rather irate (American) operator, who had attempted to verify my third party call, only to get my roommates answering machine telling her she had reached the Arlington Insane Asylum. That took at little straightening out! -kee Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud
hwt@uunet.uu.net> (06/05/90)
In article <8597@accuvax.nwu.edu> rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: >Four years ago, my San Jose directory had 3.5 pages of listings for >country/city codes. Why chop the list??? The Ottawa/Hull Bell Canada (not a BOC, really) phone book has eight pages, 145 Country codes (including Christmas Island, Vanuatu, etc.). Yet another advantage to old-fashioned non-competitive monopoly service! And our local rates are lower, too. Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions ..uunet!bnrgate!hwt%bwdlh490 or HWT@BNR.CA
Jim Breen <rdt139z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> (06/05/90)
In article <8597@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: > Speaking of the local phone book, I've noticed something the last few > years: the list of foreign codes has gotten SHORTER and SHORTER each > year -- I guess the idea is that Pac*Bell doesn't get much revenue > *directly* from international calls, so they won't put much effort > into helping you. For example, the Oakland book lists 38 country > codes and a total of about 83 city codes, for the entire world. The Telecom Australia directory in the larger cities has 165 country codes and ~300 city codes. Perhaps there are some advantages in monopolies after all (8-<)>. _______ Jim Breen (rdt139z@monu6.cc.monash.oz) Dept of Robotics & /o\----\\ \O Digital Technology. Chisholm Inst. of Technology /RDT\ /|\ \/| -:O____/ PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia O-----O _/_\ /\ /\ (ph) +61 3 573 2552 (fax) +61 3 573 2748
rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) (06/15/90)
In article <8597@accuvax.nwu.edu> rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison) writes: >Four years ago, my San Jose directory had 3.5 pages of listings for >country/city codes. Why chop the list??? Well, the plot thickens. I just got my new June, 1990, directory the other day, and they have a much longer list. Countries returning to existence (in Pac*Bell's infinite wisdom) include Sweden, Senegal, Argentina, Fiji, and Tasmania. There are several more city codes listed for some of the larger countries. Go figure. Linc Madison = rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu