GORDON MEYER <72307.1502@compuserve.com> (02/10/90)
A phreaker phriend of mine recently told me about the following area codes: 871 - Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediter. Sea. 872 - Pacific Ocean 873 - Indian Ocean Has anyone heard of these before or was he pulling my leg? He said they were used, for example, to reach oil rigs and so on. GRM 72307.1502@Compuserve.com / GEnie & Delphi: GRMEYER [Moderator's Note: Those are the 'country codes' for ships on the high seas. They are linked into radio circuits, and used to reach ships in transit from one place to another. PT]
otis brown <otis@umigw.miami.edu> (02/11/90)
In article <3710@accuvax.nwu.edu>, 72307.1502@compuserve.com (GORDON MEYER) says: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 89, message 9 of 14 > A phreaker phriend of mine recently told me about the following area codes: > 871 - Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediter. Sea. > 872 - Pacific Ocean > 873 - Indian Ocean The moderator replied... > [Moderator's Note: Those are the 'country codes' for ships on the high > seas. They are linked into radio circuits, and used to reach ships in > transit from one place to another. PT] These are the INMARSAT "Area Codes" for international high seas satellite mediated telephony [radio in a way]. Each ocean basin has specific INMARSAT satellites assigned to it so that when you prefix your call with that oceans' prefix, the system looks for response in that basin. As a side note there are several sites in Antarctica with INMARSAT ground stations and you have to know which satellite the site is using to call them. Otis Brown Inet: otis@miami.miami.edu [129.171.0.4] SPAN: miami::otis [3074::otis] UUCP: ...!ncar!umigw!miami!otis Telemail: O.Brown/OMNET PSDN: PSI%31103210303502::otis