Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> And some people wonder why some Americans are ignorant that Canada is > another country. They can't even have their own country code :-) The NANP (North American Numbering Plan) assigned country code 1 to Canada, the US, the Bahamas, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Grenada, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the Northern Marina Islands, Guam, American Samoa, St Lucia, Dominica, St Vincent, the Grenadines, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis, and Jamaica. Many handbooks will tell you that, for example, the country code for Guam is +1671, but they are lying. The country code for Guam is +1, and the NANP prefix (NPA) is 671. This means, among other things, that I can call Guam without using an international dialing prefix. An amazing number of scams have developed from the near-universal ignorance of this coding among wealthy US residents.