In message <b29e85c0-81a5-4bdb-b821-9393ef5a8...@yahoo.com>, David Barak writes : > > On Apr 15, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > > > Australia is about the area as the US and has always had caller > > pays and seperate area codes for mobiles. > > Australia has fewer people than Texas, and is more than an order of > magnitude smaller than the US by population. Effects of scale apply here > in terms of path dependence for solutions. > > David Barak > Sent from mobile device, please excuse autocorrection artifacts
NA has a 10 digit scheme (3 area code - 7 local) though most of the time you end up dialing the 10 digits. Australia has a 9 digit scheme (1 area code - 8 local) Yes the area codes are huge (multi-state) and some "local" calls are sometimes long distance. In my lifetime local calls have gone from 6 digits to 7 and then 8 digits. The last change got rid of lots of area codes and expanded all the local numbers to 8 digits. This allows you to use what was a Canberra number in Sydney as they are now all in the same area code. Canberra and Sydney are a 3 hour drive apart. We are no longer in a age where we need to route calls on a digit by digit basis. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
