Direct Phone Number which is regarding for AS297
Gary E. Miller
gem at rellim.com
Fri Sep 10 19:08:51 UTC 1999
Yo John!
This is not the way it is in Singapore. a US 800 is just a +1 800
there. I have used this many times recently..
RGDS
GARY
On 10 Sep 1999, John R. Levine wrote:
> Date: 10 Sep 1999 11:06:34 -0400
> From: John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com>
> To: bb at zip.com.au
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Newsgroups: local.nanog
> Subject: Re: Direct Phone Number which is regarding for AS297
>
>
> >ISTR +1-888-xxxx being the international equivalent of 1-800-xxxx
>
> Close, but no. The prefixes for international "caller pays" calls to
> US toll free numbers are:
>
> US Int'l
>
> (800) xxx-xxxx -> +1 880 xxx xxxx
> (888) xxx-xxxx -> +1 881 xxx xxxx
> (877) xxx-xxxx -> +1 882 xxx xxxx
>
> It is my impression that the implementation of these numbers depend on
> a lot of complicated telco stuff, and you can't reliably expect them
> to work everywhere. Remember that the US has many long distance
> companies, and each toll-free number is individually routed to the
> carrier that handles it, meaning that someone has to do a database dip
> to route these calls to the appropriate carrier once they reach the
> US. It's not like normal numbers where every LD company can deliver
> any call.
>
> So I agree, any NOC or anyone else who expects to be reachable from
> all over the world needs to have a regular old phone number. For
> companies that have some internal phone magic to route their 800
> number that they want to use for all their calls, it would be quite
> adequate to have a POTS number somewhere in the US that is
> call-forwarded to the 800 number, since that call-forward is invisible
> to the caller.
>
>
>
> --
> John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869
> johnl at iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl,
> Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
>
>
RGDS
GARY
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