Translations of city names

srivas sinnathurai sisrivas at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Mar 2 09:19:41 CST 2017


Skype for Business,and others cover (free global phone!!) for accounts based on
area codes.

Microsoft might have a list of this apparently adheres to a global standard.


Yes, there is single nationwide plans also available, as addition to area plans.


Sinnathurai

 

> On 02 March 2017 at 11:20 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>     Wrong, many countries have largely relaxed their phone number plans by
> using a single nation wide plan and allowed portability of numbers. Area codes
> are no longer needed (single call rate nation wide, the rate only depends on
> operators; and ranges of numbers are allocated also nationwide for value added
> services; long distance calls are things of the past since the very large
> adoption of mobile phones, also not located by area but only by country).
> 
>     2017-03-02 11:22 GMT+01:00 srivas sinnathurai <sisrivas at blueyonder.co.uk
> mailto:sisrivas at blueyonder.co.uk >:
> 
>         > > 
> >         I think there is a telephone area code, throughout the world.
> > 
> > 
> >             > > > 
> > >             On 01 March 2017 at 21:37 Richard Wordingham
> > > <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com mailto:richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com >
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >             On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:56:23 -0800
> > >             Jean Aurambault <jean.aurambault at gmail.com
> > > mailto:jean.aurambault at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > 
> > >             > I'm wondering if there is any standard that defines a
> > >             > universal city
> > >             > id (similar to country codes).
> > > 
> > >             ISO 3166-2 defines codes for some cities, but its uneven.
> > > However,
> > >             what's a city? Does Constantinople exist?
> > > 
> > >             Richard.
> > > 
> > >         > > 
> >     > 
> 


 
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