Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Slater Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Finally Learns USA Country Code Message-ID: <8489@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 May 90 11:29:13 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Slater Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 402, Message 8 of 14 In article <8446@accuvax.nwu.edu>, gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes: >Strictly speaking, isn't it true that neither the USA nor Canada have >country codes? Both countries are in Zone 1, I believe, and there is >nothing else in Zone 1, so there is no real confusion. All the >country codes seem to be at least two digits long, so if codes are >ever assigned, they could be 10 and 11. Of course they have country codes! Otherwise how would it be possible to dial the US and Canada from elsewhere? To dial US area code 415 from the UK, I dial 010 (international access code), then 1 (country code for US), then 415 XXX XXXX. If I omit the "1", I'll get through to somewhere in Switzerland (country code 41). Anyway, what do you mean by "zone 1"? Surely this is just another way of saying "country code 1". The US/Canada country code is unusual in two ways : (1) it is the only single-digit country code, and (2) it happens to be the same as the code normally used for LD access in the US and Canada. John