[asterisk-users] Re: Newbie Questions - Grandstorm phones?

[Henry.L.Coleman]

Yes thats the bottom line, its mostly the country code which can be 1-3
digits long. There is no rules based solution for this. Historicaly each
country picked a number "out of a hat" except the US (which had to be
number "1") because as we all know it's the centre of the universe. The
former USSR had to go for "7" and Russia still kept this after it's
break-up. All the other former USSR countries have settled on a 3 digit
number but (as far a I know) can still be accessed by dialing "7".


Henry L.Coleman CEO
*VoIP-PBX* 1-866-415-5355
Toronto Ontario
Canada


> Am Mittwoch, den 20.12.2006, 14:42 -0500 schrieb Doug Crompton:
>> Anthony,
>>
>>  Ok I understand. The "011" is unique though and I guess the problem is
>> the length of the remaining digits. This could vary based on country??
>> and
>> I suspect there is no unique rule that could be applied??? I have not
>> studied this but is there any uniqness to the remaining digits?
>>
>> Doug
>
> There are no general rules for international number lengths.
>
> In certain countries, the "numbering plan" is very specific about how
> long a telephone number is - the US is the best example, where ANY phone
> number is area(3)+line(7). AFAIK Luxembourg and a few countries with a
> small number of telephones have rules as well.
>
> On the contrary, in Germany there are area codes between 2 digits (only
> a few, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt) and 5 digits, and inside
> those cities numbering varies wildly. Old lines (registered pre-1960 or
> so) sometimes still have 3-digit numbers, especially in the countryside
> where there is no urge to assign new phone numbers. A friend of mine has
> the numbers "328" and "1653990" on the same ISDN line. And then, there
> are DIDs with varying number length. A company I worked for years ago
> had 9559-X where X might be "0" for central, two-digit "1X" for
> department calling groups, "[234]XX" for individual phones and "9XXX"
> for individual fax numbers.
>
> No rules there, bad luck.
>
> BR
> Anselm
>
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