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Re: Getting NANPA to designate a non-geographic area code?



At 04:20 PM 5/18/2004, John Todd wrote:

At 6:19 PM +0000 on 5/18/04, Paul Vixie wrote:
 > I guess I"m looking at the glass as half full and saying that a
 non-geographic area code could be local to EVERYBODY. That's the
 beauty of it.

you might be able to get a country code for this reason but never a NANP
area code.

This exists.  The +878 country code has been allocated for non-geographic use, and more specifically, +878-10 is right now coming out of "test mode" for ENUM-only allocations.

You might try 500 NXX.. IMHO I could be done. You just have to go to the INC and play the policy game


 > Ultimately the marketplace could decide what these calls are billed as.

for example, when one voip-attached person dials another, they'll pay
only their monthly DSL fee.  i guess that's why this is taking so long:
"please start registering stuff under .e164.arpa so you can go out of
business" is just not a compelling suggestion.

You have identified the crux of the matter.  The conversion to a VoIP network will cause loss of revenue for incumbents who currently "own" phone numbers, so some people in those organizations could (possibly correctly) interpret ENUM as a threat. 

Maybe maybe not ...

So, taxes and fees start to be associated with number sub-delegation, which may actually speed up the erosion of traditional services once some critical mass is reached with ENUM deployment.  "Pay $15 a month for my Los Angeles number?  I could just pay $1 a month for a number in Canada, and the calls come through just the same, and those guys in Canada offer this neat ENUM service..."


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