FFTU

[Kingdoms of Cal]

From: The calnet Union
To: Telecoms organisations.

Greetings

As a Union of multiple telecoms providers it has come to our attention that there is nobody who organises the basic infrastructure of the federation. Thus we ask that you join a simple union of telecoms providers so that we can organise communication, but please organise only one per nation.

Those that wish to join we ask only this data

Name of company/organisation/etc:
Nature of organisation: Government owned/Alliance of orgs/etc
Main backbone tech: Copper/fibre/...cant thing of anything else.
Exchanges: VOIP/PSTN/Mechanically switched/manually connected (operators)/etc (transitioning and other techs welcome)
Mobile Networks: GSM (G3/G4/Gn/GMS/some thing invented there)
Phone ownership: (more than one to one is allowed)
Requested Federation Dialling Code:

There are only a small number of conditions on joining the union, they are:

1) If there is no clash between you current numbers for international dialling that the new ones are added.
2) If there is a clash that you migrate to the new number within a year.
3) That the emergency number on any and all handsets mobile or landlines be the top left twice and the number next to it once or the first number on a dial twice and the second once. How ever this dose not mean that you must remove your own emergency numbers.

We believe these conditions sane and logical and the third might save lives.

Yours

Sea Makata en

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International dialling codes:

miokalia: +76
The commonwealth: +44


OOC: clause 3 is now optional see, well more of a commitment that means you have to do nothing now furfed.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=events&thread=308&post=7066

[miokalia]

Name of company/organisation/etc:
MiZC (operating as: MiZ, Doringantden-Gong, Tasea Communications, West-Gong, Eyla-Gong, Tapinta South)

Nature of organisation: Mostly Government-owned
Main backbone tech: Mostly fiber
Exchanges: Contextual automated switching.
Mobile Networks: Edge, 3G beginning to be implemented
Broadband Services: Cable - DOCSIS 2.0, LRE-over-phone
(DOCSIS 3.0 was rejected by the standards union after testing revealed it to have inferior reliability and performance compared to other existing standards)
Phone ownership: Company owns wiring in the dwelling and (often) the phone. (However, privately-owned phones and equipment are allowed)
Requested Federation Dialling Code: +76


Domestic dialing structure:

(76)-AA-BBBB-CCCC
(the +76 would not be used in calls originating domestically)

A= Domestic area code
B= Register (Exchange)
C= Address

[Kingdoms of Cal]

Name of company/organisation/etc: CALnet
Nature of organisation: Alliance of communication providers.
Main backbone tech: Pure fiber
Exchanges: VOIP (Most common)/PSTN (In the out of the way places)
Mobile Networks: GSM (at least, middle of nowhere locations)/edge (In out of the way places)/ G3 (But being phased out)/G4 (most major cites and towns, being rolled out, but still patchy)
Phone ownership:Line by provider, phone by individual.
Requested Federation Dialling Code: +44


Domestic dialling structure:

(0(domestic) +44 (international)-AAA(A)-BBB-CCCC

A=City/area/mobile (all mobile phones start 7) (some city/area/mobile numbers use an extra digit)/toll numbers (All start 89 and ignore the rest of the structure)/Non-geographic numbers (All start 88 and are charged at local rates and ignore the rest of the structure)
B=Local exchange
C=Address

Note: 999 is the local emergency number, though the FFTU code will still get you to the same place.

[aatuylva]

Name of company/organisation/etc: Aatuylvi Inrepiunek Vrukiau

Nature of organisation: Cooperative of independent civilian broadcasters

Main backbone tech: Copper hardlines and radio relays
Exchanges: Manually connected; Radios use relay dishes/antennas bounced through by broadcast stations
Mobile Networks: N/A (Mobile networks monopolized by military)
Phone ownership: Phones are privately owned.
Requested Federation Dialling Code: +42

Domestic dialing structure:
(42)*-AA-BB-CCCC-DDD
*International calls only

A-Nation identification code (Where 'nation' corresponds with a member nation of the Confederacy)
B-Citystate identification number
C-Exchange
D-Address

Emergency numbers are (depending on phone) the four numbers colored in red on the left side. With the proper funding systems owned by AIV can be modified to reroute the first two numbers dialed twice to this number.

The red numbers follow this pattern AA-BB, where the specific number in AA corresponds with the emergency military hardline and the BB number connects directly with an EMS operator in the area.

The military and technocratic comm organizations respectfully decline, and will continue to hold the national phone services to themselves.

[Kingdoms of Cal]

To: Cooperative of independent civilian broadcasters
From: Furry Federation Telecom Union

Greeting's

Your failure to accept a perfectly reasonable request that an additional number be added to you emergency response system has me left aghast. For you to refuse to accept this as a means for people in danger to know that they may find assistance via the same use of buttons on any hand set of a member nation of the FFTU makes little or no sense.

We made it clear that you may and I know of networks that do, keep your own methods of calling for help. You needn't have even told your own people of the other number, many people do not know of it in other nations and many only believe it works in other nations.

How ever I see no other option but to refuse you entry to the FFTU.

Yours
Sea Makata en
(Furry Federation Telecom Union)

PS: We have no ties to any government and only concern our selves with the provision of a consistent telecoms system.

[aatuylva]

To: The Calnet Union
From: Aatuylvan National Broadcasters

Dear sir or madam,

I regretfully inform you that the organization you are trying to reach no longer exists, as they have agreed to the deals promised them by this organization in order to fight off bankruptcy, and their assets have now been seized for the good of the Confederacy.

Good day.

OOC: "Perfectly reasonable" is ALWAYS subjective. They didn't have the money to switch, but were willing to if they had gotten any, but, nope, now they no longer exist Congrats!

[The Anean Star Empire]

Name of company/organization/etc:
Anean Intergalactic Communication Corporation

Nature of organization: Privately owned, government funded
Main backbone tech: Tachyon communications
Exchanges: Automated relays in each system and (sometimes) in deep space to direct call
Mobile Networks: 90% of the Empire has mobile phones and use them instead of home phones. Otherwise, the actual system the AICC uses is kept as an industry and government secret.
Phone ownership: The company owns the relays but the person buys the phone and owns it.
Requested Federation Dialing Code: +66

Domestic dialling structure:

1(domestic) +66 (international) AAAA-BB-CC-DDD-EEEE

A= Sector Number
B= System Number
C= Planet Number
D= Area Code
E= Address

Example for the New Gracaria Colony, Governor's Residence (sure, it's destroyed, but it still makes a decent example):
1-9000-01-03-100-5000

Example for the Imperial Palace on Haroma III
1-0001-01-03-500-1111

(Do note that Anean phones keep track of the planets most called, so A, B, and C may not even be dialed in manually at times. As for calls within the Federation, the last 7 numbers, plus international code, would suffice.)

As for the 3rd condition, doing this would be ridiculously expensive because a change in one sector of coverage, despite our technology, would require a change in all sectors of the Empire. Now, while you can have it, we would have to change the whole system that serves trillions of people on all our planets. For that reason, adding this would be pointless.

OOC: Am I missing anything or need to clarify something?

[Kingdoms of Cal]

From: The calnet Union
To: Telecoms organisations.

It appears there have been issues with the instigation of the third condition, thus we wish to amend the agreement. We do believe the existence of an international help number or pattern is important. However due to infrastructure concerns we will amend this.

Rather than it being enforced as a stipulation the third item will only be a commitment to move towards implementation of said code when updating and re-organization of numbers take place as is required over time.

We believe this should alleviate current objections on the grounds of infrastructure.

Yours
Sea Makata en

[Killer Zoids]

Name of company/organisation/etc: Tapinta
Nature of organisation: Government Controlled
Main backbone tech: Fiber Optic
Exchanges: UNEX (Standard business and consumer phones)
Mobile Networks: CDMA, OFDMA, WiMAX (certain metro areas)
Phone ownership: Infrastructure by Telco, Number & Hardware by consumer
Requested Federation Dialling Code: +16

Dialing Structure:
[1 +CC] - (AAA) EEE-NNNN
Numbers are processed Right-To-Left (though, dialed Left-To-Right), such that if you omit a portion of a number, the telco assumes you are dialing the lease significant piece of the phone number.

1+CC = 1+ Country Code
ZZZ = Zone, Division of KZ population density
AAA = Area, Division within provinces.
EEE = Local Exchange, Division within areas
NNNN = Number

[Same local-exchange calling] If I am in my house, and I want to call my neighbor who's number is 001-565-362-4368, I'd only have to dial 4368 and then #. # is used to immediately connect the phone after all numbers have been entered, instead of the system waiting a mandatory 5 seconds for the next batch of numbers. After 7 numbers are entered, the system wait time is reduced, so the need for # diminishes.
"4368 #"

[Same area] I dial the local Exchange I want to call, and the number of the person being called.
"362-4368"

[Same zone] I dial the Area Code, Exchange, and Number of the person I want to call.
"565-362-4368"

[Anywhere in KZ] I dail the Zone, Area Code, Exchange, and number.
"001-565-362-4368"

[Dialing a number in Miokalia or int'l] 1 indicates you are calling internationally and the next set of digits specifies a country code, and then that nation's number.
1-76-AA-BBBB-CCCC

[Emergency/911]
On any mobile device or land-line phone, dialing 911 will connect you to local emergency management.