asterisk users - Oct 2005 - country code list

I was wondering if anyone has put together a comprehensive list (that is
reasonably maintained) that lists country codes, landline numbers,
mobile numbers, etc.  The particular requirement is for a dialplan to
know what is going to be charged to whom.

For example, mobile and landline rates are the same in the US the US has
a unified numbering plan of 1NXXNXXXXXX, while the UK has:
441xxx geographic based landline
442xxx geographic based landline
443xx reserved
444xx reserved
445xx corp and voip
446xx reserved
447xx pagers, personal etc
448xx national rate, local rate, freephone, some mobile, blah
449xx premium services

Although I dont see something that states what a valid number actually
is.  So idealy to avoid getting charged a higher rate I would want to
limit all calls to the UK to region codes starting with a 1 or 2
(although from what I have seen most of the 2x is 20 for london).  

I have found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code but I dont know if
its accurate, and would prefer a more authoritative source for the
information.  I also dont know how out of date that is, some countries
have easier telecom laws that allow people to set up phone companies
then change the rate form what was published for termination.  I
certainly dont wanna get stuck with a pass through billing situation on
those.


If anyone has a very well maintained list somewhere (voip-info didnt
seem to have anything, at least not the keywords I have tried with
google, admittedly I havent spent much time yet) ...  This has to be an
issue that voip resellers have to deal with so there must be lists
somewhere, although odds are those are rate sheets from the actual
provider doing the termination since very few countries own the wire all
the way to all those foreign countries, although more are starting to.


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> 441xxx geographic based landline
> 442xxx geographic based landline
> 443xx reserved
> 444xx reserved
> 445xx corp and voip
> 446xx reserved
> 447xx pagers, personal etc
> 448xx national rate, local rate, freephone, some mobile, blah 
> 449xx premium services
For the UK, your most accurate source of info is probably the first few
pages of the BT Phone Book (delivered free to all UK homes/businesses).
There's quite a comprehensive list of what each number range is for, how it
breaks down, etc.

I did find a list somewhere of the useful special services (1xxx.) such as
BT customer services, line tests, etc. that I can copy from one of our
clients' dialplans if it'd be any help?

Regards,

Chris
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:12:58PM -0700, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has put together a comprehensive list (that is
> reasonably maintained) that lists country codes, landline numbers,
> mobile numbers, etc.  The particular requirement is for a dialplan to
> know what is going to be charged to whom.
> For example, mobile and landline rates are the same in the US the US has
> a unified numbering plan of 1NXXNXXXXXX, while the UK has:
> 441xxx geographic based landline
> 442xxx geographic based landline
> 443xx reserved
Actually 443 is now a new geographic range
> 444xx reserved
> 445xx corp and voip
> 446xx reserved
> 447xx pagers, personal etc
447 is mobile, personal, some pagers etc.
> 448xx national rate, local rate, freephone, some mobile, blah
44800 is freephone

there is an on-going discussion whether 4487 numbers (or at least some)
should go into premium rate.
> 449xx premium services
> 
> Although I dont see something that states what a valid number actually
> is.  So idealy to avoid getting charged a higher rate I would want to
> limit all calls to the UK to region codes starting with a 1 or 2
> (although from what I have seen most of the 2x is 20 for london).  
There are other areas too covered by 2.

Also you have to know who's terminating it. You can make an assumption
re BT termination, but directly connected businesses may use another
telco with different termination rates etc.

A lot of UK telco's have difficulty pricing UK termination because of
this (or risk taking a hit if they get it wrong).


Steve


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On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:54 +0100, Bob Goddard wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 12:19, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> [...]
> > It started with the UK as an *example* and everyone seems to have
> > latched onto that.  I wanted to know more than the UK, I wanted every
> > country.  astbill seems to have that data, I seem to have located all
> > the little bits that I need from that data, so this is progressing
> > along, from my perspective anyway.
> [...]
> 
> Try http://global.mci.com/uk/customer/. Look at the box in the bottom
> right hand corner. It may give you a bit more info.
Thank you this is what I wanted all along.  Yes they do have more of a
breakdown, at least with mexico.  I am unsure if I will use anything
from astbill, not becuase the data is inherently bad but because I may
change the way I do this ...

I am thinking parse a CSV and create the dialplan out of that, that way
its easier to regenerate in the future.

Comments, spacing and everything my dialplan from astbill.com was 1700
lines or so, the MCI file is about 4300 lines, so there was definately
stuff missing (whether that is astcill or my that was missing from what
was there I dont know).

I should have something all new and better soon for people that wanted
to create better dialplans.  And to think this whole thing started out
personally because I wanted the ability to create a good dialplan for
voipbuster.com and some friends wanted me to think over billing
solutions (not for a real product, a friend is mentoring a high school
student in independant study on voip).

Thanks a lot for this :D


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