Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> 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) ...

North America uses en bloc signalling, Australia uses CCITT style
compelled signalling.  That's why you have variable length
numbers and the split between area code and local number can
change.

> We are no longer in a age where we need to route calls on a digit
> by digit basis.

Right.  North America left that age in 1947, the rest of the world
only caught up in the 2000s.

R's,
John