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From: rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu (Linc Madison)
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Subject: Re: My List of World Wide Codes
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In article <8462@accuvax.nwu.edu> Patrick writes:

> [request for post of list of city codes worldwide]

>The long-distance carrier of your choice has lots of books, charts
>and printed reference materials you can order if you feel you must
>have a list of everything, everywhere. The front pages of your local
>phone book probably contain many city codes for starters.   PT]

Speaking of the local phone book, I've noticed something the last few
years: the list of foreign codes has gotten SHORTER and SHORTER each
year -- I guess the idea is that Pac*Bell doesn't get much revenue
*directly* from international calls, so they won't put much effort
into helping you.  For example, the Oakland book lists 38 country
codes and a total of about 83 city codes, for the entire world.  The
omissions are rather strange, too: Finland is listed but not Sweden.
Other notable omissions are Turkey, Egypt, Argentina, Thailand, and
all of Africa except South Africa.  Vatican City and Monaco rate
listings as country codes, but not Saudi Arabia.  Our Swedish friends
will be happy to know that they are the only country the San Francisco
directory adds to Oakland's list, with 5 city codes (second only to
UK).

Four years ago, my San Jose directory had 3.5 pages of listings for
country/city codes.  Why chop the list???


Linc Madison   =   rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu


[Moderator's Note: Maybe they found it as much a pain in the fingers
to type, edit, proof-read and respond to complaints about as I do.
Full scale lists of this size have little value for most people. If
they appear in some one single authoritative document someplace, let
it go at that.   PT]