[188791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: phone fun,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Apr 15 17:21:48 2016
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To: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:39:08 -0400."
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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 07:21:38 +1000
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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In message <B29E85C0-81A5-4BDB-B821-9393EF5A85BB@yahoo.com>, David Barak writes
:
> > On Apr 15, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Australia is about the area as the US and has always had caller
> > pays and seperate area codes for mobiles.
>
> Australia has fewer people than Texas, and is more than an order of
> magnitude smaller than the US by population. Effects of scale apply here
> in terms of path dependence for solutions.
>
> David Barak
> Sent from mobile device, please excuse autocorrection artifacts
NA has a 10 digit scheme (3 area code - 7 local) though most of the
time you end up dialing the 10 digits.
Australia has a 9 digit scheme (1 area code - 8 local)
Yes the area codes are huge (multi-state) and some "local" calls
are sometimes long distance. In my lifetime local calls have gone
from 6 digits to 7 and then 8 digits. The last change got rid of
lots of area codes and expanded all the local numbers to 8 digits.
This allows you to use what was a Canberra number in Sydney as they
are now all in the same area code. Canberra and Sydney are a 3
hour drive apart.
We are no longer in a age where we need to route calls on a digit
by digit basis.
Mark
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