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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Ancient ANI
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In article <14027@accuvax.nwu.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:

>Trivia department: We saw a few very long phone numbers on this list a
>few weeks back.  What's the shortest phone number (including country
>code) in the world?  What's the longest?  To qualify, it's got to be a
>world-wide unique number, diallable from anywhere ("0" doesn't count).

I am informed that the CCITT mandates that the longest legal phone
number is 12 digits long.  I am not sure whether this is meant to
include or exclude country code, so the longest legal phone number is
either 12 or 15 digits.  I doubt that any actual phone numbers exceed
12 digits today; the NANP, the U.K, and France (the only cases I have
at hand) are all 11 digits or less including country code.  


cowan@marob.masa.com		(aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)


[Moderator's Note: But I think the original author was talking about
the total number of pulses when dialing with a rotary phone, as
opposed to simply how many digits had to be dialed in total.   PAT]