On Friday, 15 April, 2016 15:51, "John R. Levine" <jo...@iecc.com> said:
> The US and most of the rest of North America have a fixed length > numbering plan designed in the 1940s by the Bell System. They offered > it to the CCITT which for political and technical reasons decided to > do something else. (So when anyone complains that the NANP is > "non-standard", you had your chance.) Fixed length numbers allowed > much more sophisticated call routing with mechanical switches than > variable length did. [and a bunch more stuff] Thanks John - no bashing was intended, genuinely interested in the different models / histories, and that helps. Regards, Tim.
