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From: David Tamkin <0004261818@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Re: My List of World Wide Codes
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 402, Message 1 of 14


John Covert wrote in volume 10, issue 400:

|Colin Plumb asks which countries are part of the North American
|Intergrated Numbering Plan Area (code 1).  They are:

|   Canada, USA including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Jamaica,
|   Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, British
|   Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
|   Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia,
|   St. Vincent and the Grenadines [Bequia, Mustique, Prune (Palm) Island,
|   Union Island], Trinidad and Tobago.

|What you will note about this list is that it includes the USA plus all
|members of the British Commonwealth in the Caribbean and North Atlantic.
|This definitively (at least for now) answers the question of why some
|places are in +1 809 and why some have their own code.

If you want it to be definitive, even just for now, that rule will
have to be "the USA, the Dominican Republic, and all members of the
British Commonwealth in the Caribbean and North America."  The rule as
John stated it leaves the Dominican Republic out but includes the UK!
(If "North Atlantic" meant only islands such as Bermuda and the
Bahamas and not coastal countries on the continents, then the rule
didn't add the UK but it excluded both the Dominican Republic and
Canada.)  Anyone who considers Bermuda and the Bahamas not to be parts
of North America is welcome to specify them, and if Belize is in the
British Commonwealth, anyone who deems it in North America is equally
welcome to make a specific exception for it.

Ah well; the definitive rule didn't turn out so simple after all.

Peter Dotzauer wrote in the same issue, quoting Michael Shiels's
original article on the subject:

:>    670-    Mariana Islands
:>    688-    Tuvalu, Saipan

:Saipan is a part of the Mariana Islands.  Not only that, it comprises
:about ninety per cent of its population.  The rest is mainly on Tinian
:and Rota.  Why does Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Mariana
:Islands, have an area code together with a relatively distant country of
:nine South Pacific atolls (Tuvalu), while the rest of the Marianas has
:another area code?

It doesn't.  Michael's list was in error.  Saipan is in country code
670 along with the rest of the Northern Marianas.


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