[Asterisk-biz] New European Numbers...

[Thilo Salmon]

On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:49 +0100, Andres at itranser.com wrote:
> 
> I read somewhere that some European Toll free numbers are being
> defined, so they are reachable from any country on the European
> Community. 
> 
> It seems it would be something similiar to the 1-800 numbers on USA,
> but specific for EU.  Note, that currently, we have toll free numbers,
> but are specific for each country. No a global toll free number
> defined for Europe yet. 

As others have pointed out there are international freephone numbers
under +800. See
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/universalnumbers/uifn/index.html

There is also some effort to implement a european numbering plan under
+3883 (see http://www.etns.org/ ), but I would not bet too much on it.

Thilo