From 1d15e5e1c06c80048237d2e9a885af292ccf20bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lararennie Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:39:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Replacement for PR #1635 - explicitly addressing the reasons behind the missing assigned country calling codes. (#1681) --- FAQ.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index d3b3f9efd..2d76c6d43 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ We only support a country if: have a region code assigned to it, so we could not support it until it was assigned XK by [CLDR](http://cldr.unicode.org/). +We support non-geographical entities that have been assigned country calling +codes by the ITU where a numbering plan is available, e.g. "800" (International +Freephone Service) and 870 (Inmarsat SNAC). However we do not support country +calling codes that are only "reserved", or that no data is available for (namely +388 - listed as "Group of countries, shared code" and 991 - listed as "Trial of +a proposed new international telecommunication public correspondence service, +shared code".) + ## Misc ### What is the metadatalite.js/METADATA_LITE option?