On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:31 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: > Anyone know how phone service is delivered to Antarctica? > > However it is, calling it is mighty expensive compared to typical LD > rates. But I'm mainly curious as to the exact medium and > infrastructure, as well as the commercial operator(s) involved.
It's delivered via satellite. I believe (though don't quote me on this) that Palmer has the largest bandwidth to the continent, at least for the US. Each nation probably re-routes their own number space through to their bases on the southern continent. Most numbers in McMurdo and Palmer are Colorado phone numbers that are piped in through a Cisco platform. Most 'work' voice goes through numbers that aren't distinguished in any way from regular NANPA number space as far as billing goes. Apparently you're hitting some that are using the +672 if you're talking about the price. I'm aware of very few (if any?) numbers that are actually using the Antarctica numeric prefix (+672) though perhaps there are a few. http://www.ldpost.com/countries/antarctica/ JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
