Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 26 Apr 91 22:35 +0200 From: Morten Reistad Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Number Plan Change in Norway Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 310, Message 3 of 11 Lines: 37 In my latest phone bill insert the PTT ("Televerket") announces that the number plan for our country will change completely. Instead of the current seven-digit (two area + five local, or one area + six local) a uniform eight-digit plan is being introduced. Cutover will be in two phases : from June 1st 1992 all calls must use 0 + area code regardless, except for the Oslo (02) area, where this will be optional. Then the cutover to new area codes will happen during 1993. The new numbering plan (pending approval by the Ministry of Communications) is presented as: 22 + 6d Oslo 63-64,66-67 +6d Akershus 69 + 6d Ostfold 61,62 + 6d Hedmark, Oppland, Hamar 31-33 + 6d Buskerud, Vestfold, Drammen 35,37,38 + 6d Telemark, Agder, Kristiansand 51,52 + 6d Rogaland. Stavanger 53,55,56 + 6d Hordaland, Bergen 57,70,71 + 6d Sogn & Fjordane, More & Romsdal 72-74 + 6d Trondelag, Trondheim 75-76 + 6d Nordland 77-79 + 6d Troms, Finnmark, Svalbard There is a not quite persuasive argument about running out of numbers. The old numbering plan is from 1965, and it smells of bad foresight to have to change after only 27 years. A quick calculation gives 7.7 million numbers for 4.0 million people. How does this relate to other countries? Morten Reistad