Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!cgch!wtho@uunet.uu.net (Tom Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Canada - U.S. Communications Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 06:44:58 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 337, message 1 of 12 From article , by ilya@polya. stanford.edu (Ilya Goldberg): > Actually, no, unless you want to go to 12-digit international numbering. > The reason is that there is only one single digit code (namely '1') > and this would go to the US. But then no other country can get a > two-digit code which starts with a '1' (there is a rule that says > country codes must be distinct in this way). Therefore, if Canada and US > had country codes, they would have to be two-digit codes, both starting > with a '1'. Well, with 11-digit international numbers, that > would leave only 9 digits for the national number, which is not enough. Does that mean there is a limit of digits for international numbers? I know 8-digit numbers in West Germany within a 3-digit area code (the leading 0 not included). Adding the country code (2 digits) yields to a 13-digit international number. Is such a number not dialable from abroad? Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP