Re: How to Dial US Toll Free from Toronto

Since the NANP consists of some 20 countries (USA, Can, Carib) is

> there a way of "knowing" from the +1 800 (888, ...) number to which > actual country it is destined for?

That's not a meaningful question. In the USA, when you dial an 800 number, the phone switch does a database lookup to find out which carrier handles it, connects the call to that carrier who can do anything with it they want, perhaps forward it to a POTS number somewhere, or to dedicated trunks, or something more complicated with voice menus, perhaps based on where the caller is, the time of day, load levelling, or anything else they offer their customers. The same thing happens in other parts of the NANP, probably a little simpler in countries that don't have long distance competition.

When you call +1 800 XXX XXXX from outside the NANP, if they handle the call, they route it to a NANP country, probably the U.S., and the call is then handled from there.

R's,

John

PS:

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: ... In my opinion, NANPA is a very > screwed up mess with various places that should NOT be in it > attached, using the USA 'area code' type numbers and the '1' country > code. No where else in the world other than Russia ('7') and the USA > (and its collection of immediate neighbors sharing '1')gets to do > that.

We offered, Europe turned us down. Their loss.

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John Levine
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