[Serdev] +1 0XX XXX XXXX numbers

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Mon May 17 05:31:07 UTC 2004


Juha Heinanen wrote:

> Maxim Sobolev writes:
> 
>  > Not quite. The authority which manages north american space 
>  > (http://www.nanpa.com) only manages  prefixes ranging from +12XXXXXXXXX 
>  > to +19XXXXXXXXX. Also, I don't believe that this authority would give 
>  > 10^9 numbers (that is - one billion numbers) to a single entity, it 
>  > would be ridiculous.
> 
> ok, in that case if they should have gotten the space directly from itu,
> but perhaps that they have just found an unused part of the +1 space and
> just have started to use.  in the latter case i wonder how useful such
> action would be, because north american providers hardly would route any
> calls to them.  it would be as useless as the "invented" numbers of fwd.

They claim that those numbers are prefectly routable from any point of 
PSTN worldwide.

-Maxim




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