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[A Guatemala Version of Phractal's Belize PSTN Textfile]     

Guatemala is a coastal country in Central America, bordering Mexico, Belize,
Honduras, and El Salvador. The capital city is Guatemala City. Guatemala has 
gone through many years of strife, where the country's government is now 
recognizing a need for economic development and growth.

(1) Numbers and Codes
[2] Routing Structure
{3} Signalling
<4> Misc.

(1)

There are two toll free direct numbers going into Guatemala that I know of

	800-432-1171
	800-482-8351

Guatemala has only two city codes for the entire country
	
	Guatemala			502 (country code)
	La Ciudad De Guatamala		2   (city code)
	All Other Towns			9   (city code)

[2]

If your calling from North America (primarily the United States) most likely
your call will go through a long distance station in Kansas City, Missouri. 
From Missouri it will travel on down to a CO in Florida (Palm Beach) Guatemala 
itself doesnt have any form of cable connection going into the country, so it 
relays on microwave and satellite! 

From Florida, I believe it then goes (by fiber optic/submarine cable) to Cancun,
Mexico. Then by way of microwave to Guatemala (w00t!) This is my THEORY of what 
the routing structure would be if you called a town in Guatemala from the United 
States

				=============
				Your Location
				=============
				      |
				      |
				      |
				      |
				|Kansas City|
				      |
                                      |
				      |
				      |
				  |Florida|
				      |
				      |
				      |  <-------Submarine/Fiber Optic
				      |
			       |Cancun, Mexico|
				      |
                                      |
                                      |  <-------Microwave
                                      |
                                 |Guatemala|

Actually, after reading Phractal's Belize textfile all the way through, I
thought of the possibility of another set of fiber optics going from the 
Florida CO to Jamaica,and probably then going by satellite to Guatemala.

{3}

Guatemala has a wide array of various telephone switching systems, both analog
and digital. I am pretty sure that Guatemala City has digital switching while 
most of the other regions have CCITT5 systems

Blueboxing into Guatemala: Actually even though im sure the CCITT systems are
boxable, I would not reccommend you blueboxing into the country using the direct 
number I gave at the beginning of the textfiles since those are AT&T trunks and 
blueboxing on those trunks probably wont do shit, but try to send a clear forward 
down the line and tell me what happens. I am sure there are other tollfree numbers 
going into the country and I have used some of those numbers in the past, but I 
cant remember them off the top of my head

<4>

Interesting factoids:
-I was born in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala in 1983
-The United States is the most called country from Guatemala
-You could interpret this as Phractal's Belize PSTN textfile but just replace
the word "Belize" with the word "Guatemala"

Goodbye Phreaks and Law Enforcement Officials Who Pretend To Be Phreaks				
		
-Urza