As a part of analogue telephone technology, area codes in North America used to be indicator of an area's remoteness. The pocket-protector crowd at that time was intent on allocating the time and energy resources of the Company (Ma Bell) and its customers as efficiently as possible. To accomplish this they assigned higher numbers to less frequently dialed areas because higher numbers just took longer to dial. This gradually faded as rotary dial phones were replaced by touch tone service and its egalitarian attitude toward all digits.

As the much vaunted time-saving efficiency of dialing lower-numbered area codes became moribund, possessing a low number lost its status as an indicator of the subscriber's proximity to soci-economic centers and focii of political power.

A new twist has developed however, and given people who care about such things, another reason to whine.
The most popular and numerically lowest area codes are filling up having issued all possible seven-digit numbers in their areas, and have had to spin off as higher-numbered area codes.
New subscribers in Manhattan had to settle for 917 unless they could somehow grandfather their way into 212 service.

The older 212 area code has become a desirable status symbol in that it gives the impression if you're in Manhattan, that you've been around for a longer time (more reliable perhaps?) than someone sporting a more-recently created 917 area code.

As a part of analogue telephone technology, area codes in North America used to be indicator of an area's remoteness. The pocket-protector crowd at that time was intent on allocating the time and energy resources of the Company (Ma Bell) and its customers as efficiently as possible. To accomplish this they assigned higher numbers to less frequently dialed areas because higher numbers just took longer to dial. This gradually faded as rotary dial phones were replaced by touch tone service and its egalitarian attitude toward all digits.

As the much vaunted time-saving efficiency of dialing lower-numbered area codes became moribund, possessing a low number lost its status as an indicator of the subscriber's proximity to soci-economic centers and focii of political power.

A new twist has developed however, and given people who care about such things, another reason to whine.
The most popular and numerically lowest area codes are filling up having issued all possible seven-digit numbers in their areas, and have had to spin off as higher-numbered area codes.
New subscribers in Manhattan had to settle for 917 unless they could somehow grandfather their way into 212 service.

The older 212 area code has become a desirable status symbol in that it gives the impression if you're in Manhattan, that you've been around for a longer time (more reliable perhaps?) than someone sporting a more-recently created 917 area code.

As a part of analogue telephone technology, area codes in North America used to be indicator of an area's remoteness. The pocket-protector crowd at that time was intent on allocating the time and energy resources of the Company (Ma Bell) and its customers as efficiently as possible. To accomplish this they assigned higher numbers to less frequently dialed areas because higher numbers just took longer to dial. This gradually faded as rotary dial phones were replaced by touch tone service and its egalitarian attitude toward all digits.

As the much vaunted time-saving efficiency of dialing lower-numbered area codes became moribund, possessing a low number lost its status as an indicator of the subscriber's proximity to soci-economic centers and focii of political power.

A new twist has developed however, and given people who care about such things, another reason to whine.
The most popular and numerically lowest area codes are filling up having issued all possible seven-digit numbers in their areas, and have had to spin off as higher-numbered area codes.
New subscribers in Manhattan had to settle for 917 unless they could somehow grandfather their way into 212 service.

The older 212 area code has become a desirable status symbol in that it gives the impression if you're in Manhattan, that you've been around for a longer time (more reliable perhaps?) than someone sporting a more-recently created 917 area code.

btw your post is stupid.
“buaaa my country is “44″.” ?????? please….

Joking…but who knows? May be it's the other way around?

A complete list of country codes is available on Wkipedia.

North America got +1 as the existing area code numbering system assigns area codes that are unique within the whole North American Numbering Plan Area, the other zones were given 2 and 3 digit codes, with larger countries getting two digit codes to allow for longer domestic numbers.

More recently, things have of course become a little less defined, fitting in new countries, islands that gain telephone service, special services, etc.

According to http://www.wtng.info/wtng-hst.html, the UK was listed with the area code +44 in the 1960 CCITT red book, with North America getting +1 in the later 1964 CCITT blue book.

So there.

(Hey it's the only thing we're number one at related to phones ok, let us have it