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Stephen Sprunk

On 01-Apr-12 12:19, wrote:
On Apr 1, 6:53 am, "
wrote:

Also, there are new countries in the NANP.
The newest one that I can think of is St. Maarten, which joined NANP on
30 September with the 721 area code, from its previous country code of +599.
I know that Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands
switched their respective country codes to area codes in the late 90s.
Has there been or anybody else as of late will there be? Does St. Pierre
et Miquelon plan to eventually join NANP? (I can't see that happening,
to be honest.)-

Originally Mexico was to have an area code, but that was changed to a
separate country code.

Two area codes: 905 for Mexico City and 706 for northwest Mexico.

That ended in 1991.

Not sure why, it would seem to make sense to make it part of NANP.

Apparently, they preferred having a country code (+52) of their own,
like the rest of Latin America (World Zone 5) rather than be a vassal
state of the imperialist gringos that run the NANP (World Zone 1).

And, if Mexico _had_ fully joined the NANP, would that imply the rest of
Central America should as well, as well as the Spanish-speaking
countries in the Caribbean? Why not South America too?

In practice, +1 is for English- and French-speaking countries, and +5 is
for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. There is significantly
less communication between the two groups as there is within each group,
for linguistic and other reasons, so it makes sense for them to be separate.

As to St. Pierre and Miquelon, there are so few people living there it
probably doesn't matter. It is amazing that there is a French colony
embedded within the US and Canada. Very few people know about it.

It's off the coast of Newfoundland; that's not really "embedded" within
Canada, and is further from the US than many European colonies in the
Caribbean.

S

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