Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Bob Goudreau Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My List of North American Area Codes Message-ID: <8679@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Jun 90 21:49:47 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 43 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 414, Message 8 of 10 In article <8653@accuvax.nwu.edu>, HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) writes: > No, it _certainly_ is the RIGHT access code for the ENTIRE > >world. Additional access codes may be required ahead of it, but no > >matter where you go in the world, "1" is the access code for the U.S. > I really am not sure this is worth going on about, because I don't > know if the rest of the Digest is interested in the topic or not, > but... The point is that the "1+" is an access code, and not part of > the phone number. In the US or elsewhere. Actually, when I use my > Sprint FON card, a "1+" never plays a role in the dialing: it seems to > be "0+"; I don't know about other calling/credit cards. > Again, it may not be worth it to start a thread on it, but I would > assert that the "1+" is an access code, and the area code does not > include it, and neither does the phone number. No, you're completely missing his point: the "1" is INDEED part of every phone number in the US, because the country code for the North American Numbering Plan (US, Canada, much of Caribbean) is "1". This country code is not to be confused with the intra-NANP access code for direct-dialed inter-area-code calls, which also happens to be "1" in most areas of the NANP. (In some, it's the null string, but that will have to change in a few years with the advent of NXX area codes.) But in all direct-dialed calls into the NANP from outside of the NANP, the country code is required. In particular, the string "1" must be dialed after the international access code (which varies from country to country; many countries use "00") and before the area code and local number. So it's certainly valid to state that the ordered pair, say, "+1 802" identifies the area code for Vermont, just as it's correct to note that "+44 71" identifies the area code for inner London. Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation 62 Alexander Drive goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau USA