[asterisk-users] International dialplans for Asterisk?

[Michiel van Baak]

On 22:56, Thu 21 Dec 06, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 21/12/06, Doug <Doug at natel.net> wrote:
> >Does anyone know the maximum number of
> >digits for an international phone number?
> >
> >Doing some searching, it looks like 16
> >numbers including the "011" is the
> >maximum number, because 17 is just not
> >found:
> >
> >OK:                            1234567890123456
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=011XXXXXXXXXXXXX
> >
> >Not OK:                        12345678901234567
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=011XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> 
> Why would you imagine that people in non-US countries would list their
> phone numbers on their websites in US International dialing format?
> Especially when more countries use '00' for their outbound
> international prefix than use '011'.
> 
> As has already been mentioned recently, at least one country (Germany)
> has no hard limit on the length of a number - extra digits after the
> base number are delivered to the CPE for internal routing - kind-of
> self-administered DDI ranges.

As far as I can remember (and our ITSP is telling us to do)
the 'dial international' code will be gone soon.
In our case we have to provide the number like this:
<country code><region><endpoint>[<extra digits>]
So for a dutch number you send: 31318787243
31 == .nl
318 == my local region
787243 == my endpoint

I see this more and more. not only ITSP, also PSTN providers
and cellphone providers.

cellphone providers use this most of the time:
+<country><region><endpont>
The above number looks like:
+31318787243

Try to get that from your telco, it makes life way more
easy.
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