Cellular Phone Directory

So what is a telephone numbering plan? It is actually a scheme of allotting international telephone numbers among mobile carriers of the world and the points of different countries, territories and districts. There’s still a difference of international dialing codes and numbering plans. There is a closed numbering plan used in areas like Canada or North America. For closed plan it is supposed that there are local phone numbers together with appointed length area codes.

There is also an open numbering plan applied in different countries that haven’t determined it yet. In this plan the size of the area calling code and local phone number can differ. Dialing the telephone numbers denoted by this plan you have to be sure to always dial the digits of the subscriber’s number, remembering that the units of the dialing code don’t need to be in any case used.

It seems very much hard to standardize the rules. As the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) attempted to introduce general norms of numbering plans and international dialing codes, they anyway stay different in various lands. E.g. 00 was meant to serve as an international access code. Some countries have agreed to the suggestion and assigned the code, still as assigning the combination was not mandatory for the countries in a number of them like the USA the calling codes remained as they were. Mixed up? Try brand reverse phone number!

The international numbering plan helps arrange country codes that suppose the dialing code for one or a number of nations. The E.164 standard exists specially for controlling country dialling codes for international calls. It measures the common length of a complete international telephone number. It is just made so that the region itself distributes the phone numbers on its zones. Well, here are the kinds of district country codes with:

- The size officially set by nation standards like in United States (3 units) or in New Zealand (one unit).
- A varying size. That is when the number of units varies like in Germany or Argentina (from two to 5), like in Japan (from one to 5) or like in Syria (from one to two).

- The calling code included into the number of the subscriber. It’s actively used in a number of countries like Spain. People call it a “closed” numbering plan. In countries like Belgium, the Netherlands or Switzerland, South Africa or others they use zero as an interurban dialing code.

The calling code of the country generally lets charge the people for air time correctly. Generally calling on the numbers within your area dialing code is pleasantly cheaper than making calls on the phone numbers with a different area dialing code.

Anyway as in States the costs for home calls are set by the state norms while trunk-line calls are evaluated by competition, it happens so that home calls have to be less cheap.

But it can happen so that one dialling code serves for a large location. Telephone calls then have to be charged depending on the distance of the connection.

The rates are generally set for area sections which are about 0-6, 12 miles and etc. Normally they are defined by valuation centers. But when the home call services somehow started being under no regulation things changed.

There may be particular area calling codes. They are used mainly for mobile phone systems in those regions where they are paid by the caller or for free, premium rates.

There as well can be different special circumstances. For example in areas like Egypt dialling code evaluate nothing because the costs remain similar for the whole country and in United Kingdom the calling code is made of two segments every one with its rate.

The Tower of Babel is an ancient town, which, according to the Bible, came to represent the unity of humanity, with everyone speaking a single language.

Unfortunately, the reality of today is there is no such place, and no such unified language. Billions are cut off from other people and places on the globe, blocked by the language barrier.

Until now.

We are delighted to announce the release of our latest world-changing service, aptly named JAJAH Babel. It’s the only free, phone translation service where you simply ring a number, speak in English and hear your message back in another language.

We’ve launched Babel with English-Chinese / Chinese-English given the current needs of the thousands of tourists in Beijing, but this is just the beginning. More languages and language-barrier busting services will follow soon.

How does JAJAH.Babel work?

From English to Chinese or in reverse:

• Dial JAJAH.Babel from any phone. Local access numbers:
  U.S.: +1.718.513.2969
  China: +86.21.5129.4632
• Choose which language you want your message translated into (either English to Chinese or Chinese to English)
• Say your message and press #
• You will be able to confirm that your message was properly understood by the system.
• The message will automatically be played back in Chinese. If you wish, simply hand your phone to the other person or put the phone on loudspeaker so they hear the message.
• The other person can then record a message in Chinese, following the steps above, and you will hear their message in English.

This free service is available from any phone, without restrictions. For more information, visit www.jajahbabel.com.

Buy a calling from Germany to? Truly sundry issues to be watchful when you decide on calling cards:

• Phone Cards Expire.
  Largely this enters upon the very first time the calling card has been used. You can use the card up to face value of the calling card till you surpass the working life. Ordinarily all spare time is lost after the expiry date. (Deletion can be avoided and on a few international phone calling cards lost minutes can be recovered by restocking the phone card)
• Billing Elevation.
  This is the shortest telephone call period and the advance operated to compute the phone call amount.
• Rounding up.
  So if your regular increment is 3 minutes and you make a 4 minute call - you will be paying for six minutes.
• Be aware of the Taxes.
  This is talked over in former section. To make it up calling cards that have a very cheap every minute rate often have to a great extent expensive connection tariff .
• Hunt down if there is a delivery payment.
  In fact there COULD be a delivery expense to incur if you are going to get the plastic variety. Regular this is the USPS charge but it could be courier charge. send to Coventry low value cards if exists a supply commission.
• Investigate if there are finance charges in the contract.
  One can transfer for calling cards by all the common manner.

Chen just forwarded me a nice profile piece about JAJAH from the current issue (Sep 2008) of PM Network by Sarah Fister Gale. PM Network is a monthly publication by the Project Management Institute. The article describes how JAJAH has grown over the years and what steps haven been taken and what tools have been used from a project management perspective.

“Daniel Mattes and Roman Scharf were fed up with their costly phone bills. Figuring they weren’t alone, they decided to launch a web-based telephony service. But coming up with the big idea was just the beginning. The two relied on project management to help speed the transition from a glimmer of an idea to a flourishing company in only three years. Today, Jajah boasts 100 employees and more than 10 million consumers in 200 locales around the world. And the upstart recently signed a deal with Yahoo! to manage the internet telephone functions of the IT giant’s instant messaging program.”

“Once you have methodical organization and the entire company focuses on the relevant parts of a specific project, things work much faster” Chen Arazi, Director of Engineering Services, adds. “Because Jajah’s executive management involves its teams in the decision-making process, it gives everyone a sense of ownership and responsibility for the results of the projects.” “Good project management is the machine behind a successful company” Daniel Mattes, JAJAH Co-founder, says. “Once it’s in place, it doesn’t matter if you add 100 employees or 1,000, because you have methods and systems there to make it work.”

Thank you Sarah for the opportunity and the great article!

You can download the entire article here

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Mike Leber over at Hurricane Electric put out a reminder that some estimates are now putting IPv4 number exhaustion at less than 1000 days out.

Having raised this issue with folks here in DC quite a bit, I’ve been intrigued by the lack of regard with which this problem has been met. In fact, it seems like few folks want to really address the issue, even though it’s a problem that’s certain to only grow in complexity and dysfunction as we near exhaustion.

Having just attended the most recent ARIN meeting in Denver, CO, I know that the scientific, research, and general IP communities have been ringing the klaxon for awhile now. Impressive amounts of information on the impending IPv4 exhaustion are readily available, and there’s even some of us inside the beltway who are available resources to talk with anyone who’d be interested in addressing the problem (so do give a call).

What’s worse, IPv6, while the only solution available, has its own scalability problems.

All I’m saying is, when this becomes “the big story” — remember, lots of us have been working to proactively address the problem for years. We certainly can’t say we didn’t see this coming.

Just in time for the House Telecom Subcommittee’s May 6 hearing on Net Neutrality legislation, Public Knowledge achieved a new level of notoriety when we were prominently mentioned in a blog post on the American Spectator, the publication best known for funneling millions of dollars to investigations of Bill and Hillary Clinton…

From a recent Farber list message:
Late last month, Senator Inoyue held a hearing on broadband and asked those testifying at least twice how much it would cost to deploy broadband across the entire country. No one had an answer for him.
If we expect to have nationwide broadband, if would be helpful to have an [...]

Although international prepaid call cards promise reasonable and easy international calls a user may still have some issues about the process. The article is designed to describe them. Here you’ll see the solutions for many actual problems.

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Ofcom Continues its Leadership Role in Spectrum Policy with Bold Proposals for 275-3000 GHz

FCC was once the world’s leader in innovative spectrum policy and admired by its counterparts throughout the world. But the UK’s Ofcom may be taking that title away with a massive wave of activity in a variety of spectrum policy areas. Shown here is the summary of a 9/26 document proposing that spectrum from 275 to 3000 GHz be all unlicensed.

It makes sense — most of the reasons for starting radio licensing don’t apply to such high frequencies where propagation is very different and most systems very directional.

But more importantly, why don’t we see bold ideas coming from FCC these days?

There’s a ton of predictable press coverage and reviews of T-Mobile’s new G1 phone — the first commercially available phone that uses Google’s Android operating system — but Broadband Reports has dug through the fine print of the user agreement and noticed something rather interesting. While the marketing materials scream out about a $25 “unlimited” data plan, the fine print notes that if you go over 1Gig per month, the rest of your data traffic that month may be slowed down to a piddling 50kbps. So, before you get that G1 and plan to surf away, recognize that while, unlimited, T-Mobile apparently has no intention of letting you actually surf with any reasonable bandwidth after a certain point.

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