Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!pubs-lab From: pubs-lab@utcs.UUCP (Taras Pryjma) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Phone Numbers Message-ID: <316@utcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 17:55:48 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.316 Posted: Thu Jan 3 17:55:48 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 18:40:55 EST Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 42 Enough already. This discussion is already getting out of hand. My suggestion to those who really want to know why North America has a country code of '1' is to do some research in your local well equiped technical library. For there, surely if the library is equiped well enough will sit the answer!!! In this case, the answer probably sits in a volume published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), in a book called White Book No. 6. If it is not there, then it is definitely sitting in another book, that is part of series published in the UK by the IEE, (As far as I know this is a seperate organization from the IEEE.) on telecommunications. It is a fantastic series, for it explains everything that your heart desires on telecomunications and the various standards that you might require. It also goes on to explain how the world is divided for IDDD. Although I have not seen this book for over 2 years, I do remember enough to know that the world, for the sake of the telephone is divided into 10 sections, 0-9. These sections were, with the help of local telephone directory, are as follows: 1 - North America 2 - Africa 3 - Southern Europe 4 - Northern Europe and the British Isles 5 - South and Central America 6 - Australia and the South Pacific 7 - USSR and its satellites (but this is only guessing) 8 - Japan, Korea and area, also interational marine traffic. 9 - The Middle East Each of thease area is then subdivided, by their respective governments as they see fit. It is only if you have to go outside of your internation region that you worry about country codes. In North America this is rare, but in other parts of the world an every day occurance. I wish people would post answers to questions they know the answers to on this net, it might get rid of some of the junk. Taras Pryjma.