Or more likely, they had a mutual agreement until Britain wanted its own thing, so they exit the deal. Seems like something the English would do. We could have called it Brexit or something
It’s not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is…fine…but I’ve not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.
Weird how they split up Europe into a patchwork.
I’m guessing it’s because France refused to share a prefix code with Britain.
Or more likely, they had a mutual agreement until Britain wanted its own thing, so they exit the deal. Seems like something the English would do. We could have called it Brexit or something
It’s not a million miles away from the truth. The UK and France were the main advocates behind the ITU, so they got +33 and +44. Which is…fine…but I’ve not come across why NA got +1, etc. or even why those numbers were chosen at all.
NA has +1 because the US invented the telephone. Canada is America’s hat.
Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish, who moved to Canada and then moved to the US.