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What dial plan below best represents provision simplicity, assuming the NANP numbering plan?

Site A uses three-digit internal numbers and remote Site B uses four-digit internal numbers. All calls to the PSTN are routed through Site B. What dial plan below best represents provision simplicity, assuming the NANP numbering plan?

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A.
Translate all called numbers within Site A to four digits.

B.
Translate all called numbers within Site B to three digits.

C.
Translate all called numbers leaving Site A to ten digits.

D.
Translate all called numbers at either site to ten digits.

Explanation:
North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is designed around a 10-digit numbering plan:

(Sometimes you will see it as NXX NXXX XXXX, which means that the first and fourth digits cant be zero or one)

It consists of 3-digit area codes and 7-digit telephone. For telephone numbers that are located within an area code, the PSTN uses a seven-digit dial plan numbers.

Notice that Site B uses four-digit internal numbers means we need ten digits to access site B from an outside PSTN. Therefore, if people from Site A want to call people at site B and sometimes they just press 4 digits then the administrators should translate the called numbers to ten digits before leaving Site A.


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