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Brazil has a complicated system of numbering. The international code is +55. Dialing from one city to another requires to type 14 numbers: zero, followed by the two-digits code of the chosen operator, the two-digits area code and the number proper, which may have eight or nine digits.
Somebody in Wake Forest, North Carolina accidentally got a very interesting phone number, The International System of Units has defined one second of time as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the cesium-133 atom. The poor guy had the phone number 919-263-1770 and started getting phone calls from bored and/or inebriated scientists saying "Hey, dude, cool number", and had it changed. I don't know if anybody has that number now, dial it and see.
Have no idea what you are talking about? English please.
Earlier in the thread (post #5), someone pointed out that Hollywood always phone numbers which could not actually be dialed in TV series out of fear that some bozo in the audience would be so bored that he would call those numbers. The classic example is a phone number beginning with the prefix "555" or the corresponding fictitious "KLondike."
I think jtur88 was suggesting that this is an example of where this happened.
If I were a Hollywood producer, I would just buy the number that I intended to use from a VOIP exchange and answer the call with a prerecorded plug for the movie.
Russia and Kazakhstan share a dialing code (7), which of course is a legacy of the USSR. For some reason Kazakhstan never got around to acquiring its own code, as all other ex-USSR republics did.
Ok, well Russia and Kazakhstan are the exceptions today. But otherwise, why don't substantial countries all over the world share country codes the way that the US and Canada do? Like, why didn't Western European countries such as France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Italy start a NANP-style numbering plan (and hence a single country code for all these countries) at the same time as when the European Economic Community was established in those countries back in the late 1950s? (And that European numbering plan would have expanded geographically at the same time that the EEC - later to be the EC and ultimately the EU - expanded.) In other words, what was so special about North America in that regard - the presence of Bell Labs?
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