I would, from personal experience, construct a quite different list. Some of mine would be: * Every other country's telephone numbering is like one's own. *

I would, from personal experience, construct a quite different list. Some of mine would be: * Every other country's telephone numbering is like one's own. * Every other country's telephone numbering is like that of EU countries, or like the NANP. * The last 10 digits are the subscriber number. * Geographic numbers are actually geographic. * 123456789 is a perfectly fine number to use for test calls. * STD is exactly like NPA-NXX. * The leading 1- in NANP long distance form is the country code. * There are only national and international forms nowadays. * Users do not use E.164 themselves. * Emergency numbers are easy to filter out, as it's only one number. There are also falsehoods that people believe about telephones, which I would start with: * When you hear the ringing tone, the other end is already ringing. * Your ringing tone comes from the other end. * Every network sends in-band call progress tones. * It's perfectly fine to use fax over a G.729 'phone. * DTMF is in-band and universally supported. * DTMF is out of band and synchronous to media. * There is only one way that callees reject calls, and it never involves being connected. * TPC does not need to know the correct physical location of your non-mobile 'phone. * TPC tracks mobile 'phones through "a GPS chip". * Calls can only be traced whilst the caller is on the line. * Caller-ID is unspoofable and works across networks and across countries. * The callee can always clear calls. * Only the caller can clear a call.