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Re: Is This a Norwegian or Australian Number? Please Identify

Linc Madison (lincmad@suespammers.org)
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:08:54 -0800

In article <telecom24.32.1@telecom-digest.org>, tom
<tom900@slidemail.com> wrote:

> Someone keeps calling me from this number: 6-189-734-2316
> Is this a Norwegian or Australian number?

Difficult to say for certain, but the digit count is correct for
Australia, specifically probably somewhere in or near Bunbury, Western
Australia. The correct parsing of the number, if it is Australian,
would be

+61 8 9734-2316, or (08) 9734-2316 in domestic format.

Before 1997, this number might've been +61 97 342316, or (097) 342316
in domestic format.

In brief, +61 2 covers New South Wales (Sydney) and A.C.T. (Canberra);
+61 3 covers Victoria (Melbourne) and Tasmania; +61 7 covers Queensland
(Brisbane); and +61 8 covers W.A., S.A., and N.T. There are a few minor
exceptions where the area code boundary doesn't exactly match the state
boundary, such as a portion of far western N.S.W. that is in +61 8
instead of +61 2.

For Norway, though, the digit count doesn't fit. A Norwegian number
should be of the form +47 XXXX XXXX. There might be a few non-standard
numbers shorter than that, but there shouldn't be anything longer. Is
there a particular reason you think it might be Norwegian?

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