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Country calling codes (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Weird how they split up Europe into a patchwork.

I’m guessing it’s because France refused to share a prefix code with Britain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It's not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is...fine...but I've not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

NA has +1 because the US invented the telephone. Canada is America's hat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, who moved to Canada and then moved to the US.

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