Surely we should be 2 or 3 at most?!?!?!
Why is Kazakhstan been given 7 whereas UK is 44??!?!
Surely we should be 2 or 3 at most?!?!?!
I'm concerned about your life if you have nothing else to 'worry' about? 
I never knew people thought about these things
do you know I have a green crisp in my Walkers cheese and onion - I am outraged!!
[Edited on 13/2/08 by Mr Whippy]
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Originally posted by 02GF74
Why is Kazakhstan been given 7 whereas UK is 44??!?!
Surely we should be 2 or 3 at most?!?!?!
An interesting observation, but have you considered it the other way around?
Perhaps the higher the number the better...? who has 1 as their international code? 
Canada is number 1 apparently...
[Edited on 13/2/08 by tegwin]
One thing that is truly appalling is the short hand way that people refer the this country i.e. the UK that makes me sick
It's GREAT BRITAIN!
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
One thing that is truly appalling is the short hand way that people refer the this country i.e. the UK that makes me sick
It's GREAT BRITAIN!
And why should we have the pomposity to refer to ourselves as Great Britain.
Being English, I prefer England (no deference to the Scots, Irish or Welsh BTW)
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
I never knew people thought about these things
do you know I have a green crisp in my Walkers cheese and onion - I am outraged!!
[Edited on 13/2/08 by Mr Whippy]
According to my list 7 is the Russian Federation.
I always thought that Ian Fleming gave James Bond his 007 number because that was the dialling code for Russia.
Neil
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Originally posted by nick205
And why should we have the pomposity to refer to ourselves as Great Britain.
So who has the highest number?
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Originally posted by speedyxjs
So who has the highest number?
I couldn't give a monkey's about dialing codes (even though some people on here hang monkeys!)
I always put English when it comes to the question about nationality on forms and given the choice I would have been a so called convict and would
have been blowing raspberries at the UK now calling meself an Aussie
All i know is it all started here in my little town. And I'm fairly proud of that
I used to work for BT International doing statistical modelling and capacity planning. There's really no logic to the International dialling
codes and how they are allocated. Safest bet is wherever you are dial + rather than 00 to get an International route, works pretty much everywhere
apart from a few notable exceptions.
UK 'dircetor' exchanges were easy to allocate, for example Ewell in Surrey is a 393 or 394 number scheme, swap the numbers for letters on
the key pad or dial and you get 393 = EWE, the first 3 letters of Ewell on your keypad. Doesn't work for non director telephone exchanges like
01737 Reigate.
Each scheme had it's advantages.
Sorry for being a telephone bore.
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Originally posted by Pants On Fire
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Originally posted by speedyxjs
So who has the highest number?
The Police, they've got number Nine Hundred & Ninety Nine.
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Originally posted by coozer
I couldn't give a monkey's about dialing codes (even though some people on here hang monkeys!
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Originally posted by 02GF74
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Originally posted by Pants On Fire
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Originally posted by speedyxjs
So who has the highest number?
The Police, they've got number Nine Hundred & Ninety Nine.
Wrong, Northern Cyprus has 90,392.
ther may be others but I have got better tings to do than to google this sort of stuff.
i see what you mean but then I am not an internation dialing code spotter like you.
presumably carribean islads starting with 1 count as an area of USA.
Therefore the highest code found in my diary is 994 for Azerbaijan.
So seems the 999 for police may indeed be the highest after all - many a true word spoken in jest it seems.
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Originally posted by 02GF74
i see what you mean but then I am not an internation dialing code spotter like you.
Well given the ever increasing litigious state of our society perhaps you could try to sue BT for wear and tear on the 4 button on your phone and they
might change it then.
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
One thing that is truly appalling is the short hand way that people refer the this country i.e. the UK that makes me sick
It's GREAT BRITAIN!
Canada and the USA are number 1, because a chap named Alexander Graham Bell, a Canadian citizen invented the telephone, while a resident of the
Excited States of America.
And just to keep the fight going, he was born in Scotland.
The first digit of the VIN number of cars built in the US is 1, the first digit of cars built in Canada is 2, hence there are a lot of Americans
driving foreign cars.
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Originally posted by Canada EH!
because a chap named Alexander Graham Bell, a Canadian citizen invented the telephone, while a resident of the Excited States of America.
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Meucci was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States House of Representatives, in its resolution 269 dated 11 June 2002 ("if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell"
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
......The was a province known as Little or Lesser Britain........
Its all really simple. The numbers are allocate by the ITU. The numbering plans then have to comply with the E164 schema and in the start they were
probably based like std codes on the name. So G for GB is 4 and then the second 4 was added as the UK could not justify that large a number block.
Once the logical ones were allocated then more random combinations were used. The only problem with this methodology is that its not the most
efficient use of the number blocks. So as to get all the countires in additional nyumbers were added to the country code. I think the maximum
number of digits is 14.
So 00 International Access code, 44 Country Code 117 Area code 988 7777 Local number.