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A phone numbering plan is a system used to allocate international numbers among various continents and regions and among mobile phone operators. There still exists a distinction of international dialing codes and numbering plans. In places like Australia or North America there figures a closed numbering plan that involves special length area codes and telephone numbers.

There also exists an open numbering plan used in different countries that haven’t unified it by now. In this plan the length of the area dialing code and local telephone number can differ. Dialling the phone numbers assigned by this plan you must be sure to always use the digits of the subscriber’s number, remembering that the units of the calling code don’t need to be always applied.
Even after the attempts of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to carry out the norms of numbering plans and international dialing codes they anyway stay different in various regions. At first the organization suggested the different countries to use 00 as the international access code. Several countries have agreed to the offer and assigned the code, but as changing the code was not obligatory for the countries in a number of them like the USA the dialing codes stayed as they were. Mixed up? Try our new reverse phone directory!

The international numbering plan helps arrange country codes that suppose the code for one or a group of countries. The maximum length of the full international telephone number is defined by the E.164 standard which controls the area codes at the international level. The phone numbers in any country are just defined by its active network. So district area codes are classified into those that are with:

- The length officially assigned by nation standards as it is in United States (three digits) or in Australia (1 unit).
- A non-defined length. That is when the number of units changes like in Germany or Argentina (from 2 to five), like on japanese isles (from one to five) or like in Syria (from one to 2).

- Particular norms offering that the subscriber’s number has the dialing code in its structure, like in Spain. People call it a “closed” numbering plan. Speaking of some areas, they use 0 as an inter-city calling code. It’s popular in countries like Italy and Belgium, Switzerland or Poland, South Africa or others.

In fact the price of the call is generally dependable on the area dialling code. The rate for air time on the territory of the country calling code usually goes lower than for the calls to the phone numbers with some other dialing code. The calls to the phone numbers with adjacent dialing codes are also charged at lower price.

Anyway as in States the costs for local calls are set by the state norms while long-distance calls are evaluated by competition, it happens so that home calls have to be more expensive.

But there are some locations in United States where dialing codes cover a really big territory. In such conditions various prices are applied depending on the range between the subscribers.

The costs are generally set for distance sections which are like 0-6, twelve miles and more. Usually they are defined by valuation centers. But it changed with the lack of control of home telephone services.

It’s now going popular between the people to take the so-called “all-you-can-eat” plan (a fixed rate of about 30 dollars monthly as actual for spring 2008 allowing to reach any city of the USA).
In some countries cell phone systems apply particular dialling codes. Also the codes are used for some exceptional rates, free or premium ones.

There also may be different special occasions. For example in areas like Egypt area dialing code evaluate nothing as the costs remain the same for the whole territory and in the UK the area dialing code is complete of 2 segments each with its cost.