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April 5th 12, 11:42 PM
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Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
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. They were reserved area code-like dialing patterns within the NANP to reach parts of Mexico; outside the NANP, the country code 52 had to be used. Prior to international direct distance dialing, it meant that the caller could dial the number himself without an intercept operator. After IDDD, the country code or area code was permissive. You may recall that until 1980, northwest Mexico was dialed with 903. Mexico changed its numbering pattern. That part of Mexico got a "city code" of 6, so the NANP area code was changed to 706. 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? Parts of the ex-Spanish Caribbean are in NANP: Dominican Republic. As discussed elsewhere, an ex-Dutch part of the Caribbean joined NANP. None of the former French colonies (that weren't later conquered by another European power) joined NANP. |
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