I still don't get what would this be useful for?? 

And ok, this is a nice compilation of data, but it should be maintained since 
numbering plans in the world change every Wednesday and Thursday. Who is going 
to maintain it and how will it be useful when numbering plans change? What 
about countries that have number portability and you can have land line numbers 
ported to mobile operators and vice versa? The complexity is immense ... 

I just don't get it... 

Dimitris Evmorfopoulos

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Dooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: international mobile number formats

hi all,

i've gone through the WTNG and Wikipedia and started compiling a parseable 
file format of all the country codes, mobile prefixes and number of digits 
to expect after the prefix.

some countries i could not determine the information for (i was working 
quite quickly so it's possible the information is available but if there 
wasn't an easily accessible list on the WTNG i generally just included the 
prefix/number of digits as unknown... see notes at the top of the file for 
more details).

it would be great if everyone could please look for their country and 
email me with updates. there were some really big countries in there that 
didn't have very clear numbering plans for mobiles on the WTNG site!!

you can check out the file here:

http://www.workingsoftware.com.au/mobile_numbering.txt

have a read of the notes up the top of the file. they discuss the file 
format and the rules i used when compiling the list.

let me know what you think!

cheers

iain







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