If you want to call someone in the USA, thenyou will always have to type "+1" first. Russian numbers start with "+7". But why do our country and America have such numbers at the beginning of telephone numbers? And what does the plus sign in the number mean? Discuss
iXBT user.com explained why Russia and the United States received just such telephone codes: 7 and 1, respectively. The fact is that with the development of technology at some point, a mobile phone appeared in almost every person in the world. Therefore, it became necessary to regulate calls within a particular country and between countries.
Representatives of the telecommunications union then decided to divide the entire globe into nine parts. Each of these areas has been assigned its own code.
At that time, the Soviet Union got the number 7.After its collapse, for example, Belarus received its own separate figure – 3.
What about the plus sign? This symbol indicates access to international communication. Although once a certain combination of numbers was used instead of a plus (each state had its own).
As for the number 8, with which some of us begin to dictate our number, it has its own history. Previously (in Soviet times), it was this figure that denoted international calls within the country.
And the United States has the number 1 precisely because this country is the birthplace of mobile communications. Plus, it was there during the development of telephony that most subscribers were.