Translations of city names

[Jean Aurambault]

thank you all for your input!

Jean

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> At least in the European Union, portability of numbers is open to every
> customers. And almost everywhere local call rates are disappearing for all
> operators, going to a situation with a single national rate.
> What replaces the local call rates is different rates depending on source
> and target operators or the kind of service (fixed line or mobile) rather
> than the actual location of callers and callees.
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> 2017-03-02 16:19 GMT+01:00 srivas sinnathurai <sisrivas at blueyonder.co.uk>:
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>> Skype for Business,and others cover (free global phone!!) for accounts
>> based on area codes.
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>> Microsoft might have a list of this apparently adheres to a global
>> standard.
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>> Yes, there is single nationwide plans also available, as addition to area
>> plans.
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>> Sinnathurai
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>> On 02 March 2017 at 11:20 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> 2017-03-02 11:22 GMT+01:00 srivas sinnathurai <sisrivas at blueyonder.co.uk
>> >:
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>> I think there is a telephone area code, throughout the world.
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>> On 01 March 2017 at 21:37 Richard Wordingham <
>> richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:56:23 -0800
>> Jean Aurambault <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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