Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finland Wants 37!! Message-ID: <15218@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Dec 90 18:05:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 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 865, Message 7 of 13 Kauto Huopio writes in a submission which I haven't seen, but which had a follow-up I have seen: > I've heard that our [Finnish] PTT has made a request to obtain the > former country code of the former East Germany [+37] I understand that the three Baltic states have asked the CCITT for their own separate country codes. Given the possibility that new codes will be needed for these countries, and for any other parts of the USSR that break free, wouldn't it make more sense to give them three-digit country codes of the form "37X" once Germany retires 37? And anyway, why should Finland be unhappy with 358? Is it merely envious of the high-falutin' two-digit country codes owned by Norway, Sweden and Denmark? :-) Bob Goudreau +1 919 248 6231 Data General Corporation goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com 62 Alexander Drive ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!goudreau Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA