So in this case, do the ILEC or CLEC companies need to be local to the country or city in order to get the local number assigned to their equipments?
Thanks, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Sandiford To: John Van Ostrand ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] buying/selling DIDs NANPA assigns the area codes for North America CNAC (now SAIC Canada) deals with the NXX assignments (known as CO Codes) for Canada. You have to be an ILEC or CLEC and connected to the SS7 network in order to get an assignment. That is how we got ours: http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_prefix.php?npa=&nxx=&x=&ocn=190e®ion=&lata=&switch=&pastdays=0&nextdays=0 Regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: John Van Ostrand To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] buying/selling DIDs On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:57 -0400, Bill Sandiford wrote: They come from 2 sources (well ultimately 1, but anyways) So the Internet has the http://www.IANA.org that doles out IP addresses and other number spaces to the world. What's the equivalent in telephony? Who assigns the country codes? Who in canada/us assigns the area codes? Who then assigns the exchanges? I presume it's the carrier that assigns the actual last 4 digits.
