[VoIP] The Government is Your Friend (CNET Numbering Plan)

[Steph Kerman]

As much as I preferred the original NANP with N1/0X NPAs, adopting that 
on CNET would interfere with matching CNET numbers with PSTN numbers in 
a 10 digit CNET numbering plan (CNNP?).  For example, I have 100 NANP 
numbers in NPA 650.  Since that is a NXX NPA, it would not be possible 
to match CNET dialing to that PSTN number block. 

I'm inclined to think it would be better to adopt 7 digit and 1+10 digit 
dialing should we chose to support 10 digit dialing network wide at all.

Has there ever been any discussion about the use of 0 or 0+ dialing in 
the CNNP?  I don't recall any.

Steph

Greg Blakely wrote:
> WHAT IF....
>
> What if we were to decide to pattern ourselves after the original 
> design of the NANP, declaring that the middle digit of an NPA be 
> either a 1 or a 0, and that office codes cannot use a 1 or a 0 as 
> their middle digit.
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> IF WE DID THAT...
>
> If we did that, we could have our asterisk boxes set to dial ten 
> digits if the second digit is a one or a zero, and dial only seven 
> digits if
> otherwise. That might make it convenient for both those of us who want 
> to use 7-digit codes and those who want ten digit dialing.
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