Brazil has a stupid numbering system for phones, now. Instead of having three digits area codes and several area codes for highly populated areas, they have two digits area codes and nine digits phone numbers. (But it’s not the case here, here is a scam caller)
Seriously, if you understand how this came to be, I’m curious. I’d think they implemented land lines using extant hardware systems of the era, and the number structure surely was well established by that point?
Now I’m off to go down a rabbit hole of telecom implementations worldwide.
I don’t know exactly why. A quick search told me that “because the people wanted that way”. In Brazil, we don’t use the area code for local calls, so, if they created a new area code for the same city (like we have in Montreal, the 514 and the 438), it would cause confusion.
where has 9 digit locals?
Brazil has a stupid numbering system for phones, now. Instead of having three digits area codes and several area codes for highly populated areas, they have two digits area codes and nine digits phone numbers. (But it’s not the case here, here is a scam caller)
But, why?
Seriously, if you understand how this came to be, I’m curious. I’d think they implemented land lines using extant hardware systems of the era, and the number structure surely was well established by that point?
Now I’m off to go down a rabbit hole of telecom implementations worldwide.
I don’t know exactly why. A quick search told me that “because the people wanted that way”. In Brazil, we don’t use the area code for local calls, so, if they created a new area code for the same city (like we have in Montreal, the 514 and the 438), it would cause confusion.
thanks! i was sure there had to be somewhere