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Originally Posted by tux
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Ouch! This proposal is really awful, especially because it keeps most of the legacy crap like country codes!
A system similar to the US might be sufficient, albeit it would probably be very hard to introduce?
+3 (or +4) = EU (+appendages like Switzerland, Liechtenstein etc..., just like the US´s +1-system accomodates Canada, Puerto Rico, Bahamas etc...)
3 digits determine the area (aaa)
7 further digits are individual extensions (eeeeeeee)
This way all EU (+appendages) #s could look like this:
+3-aaa-eeeeeee
1000 areas of 10 million numbers each, altogether 10 billion #s.
There are roughly 500m people in the proposed area, so that would leave ~20 numbers per person. If that´s not enough I don´t know. Especially since many crazy people (like me) who currently hoard multiple numbers wouldn´t have to do just that anymore.