Numbers for immediate help
- Emergency 112 Fire, ambulance, communal police, sea rescue and mountain rescue. One number, answered in the sub-region the call is made from.
- Operator 100 A person, at any hour. The operator connects the call, looks up a number, or reads a page of this directory aloud.
- Line faults 101 A dead line, a noisy line, an exchange that has dropped. Report it from any other line, including a neighbour's.
- Text and speech relay 108 A relay assistant between text and speech, in both directions, on every service in this directory.
These four answer from every handset in the Republic. They answer from a phone with no SIM in it, from a line whose service has been stopped, and from a call box with no account attached to it at all.
What each resident receives Provision
Every resident is furnished with a computer, a telephone and a connection between them and everyone else. None of it is billed, metered or capped. There is no contract, no tariff plan and no paid upgrade.
Each resident has one identity, and it works on every service listed below. Further identities may be kept under names of the resident's own choosing, and no reason is required. Telephony keeps no link between them.
The blue pages Chat · IRC to NTP
Where the services answer
Every service is reachable at its protocol name. The client alias beside it points at the same machines, and either address works.
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IRC
irc.telephony.rof
Alias
polari.telephony.rof· 6697 over TLS · SASL · no registration needed to read -
Matrix
matrix.telephony.rof
Alias
element.telephony.rof· server nametelephony.rof· federated with the Bloc homeservers -
SIP
sip.telephony.rof
Alias
linphone.telephony.rof· 5061 over TLS · supports every number in the plan below - STUN and TURN turn.telephony.rof 3478 UDP · 5349 over TLS · open to any application, with no key and no account
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Conferencing
meet.telephony.rof
Alias
jitsi.telephony.rof· joins from a browser, a handset or a telephone number -
Nextcloud Talk
talk.telephony.rof
Alias
nextcloud.telephony.rof· for communes and cooperatives keeping their own files beside the call -
Name service
dns.telephony.rof
Resolvers at
10.0.0.53and10.0.1.53· no query is filtered and no false answer is returned - Time ntp.telephony.rof Four strata-1 clocks, at Lindoma, Sederna, Leriduson and the gateway at Corvaluri
How the country connects 7.2 million households
Five ways in
| Line | Households | Share | Typical speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre to the building | 2,952,000 | 41 % | 1 Gbit/s |
| DSL over the communal copper | 1,944,000 | 27 % | 35 to 90 Mbit/s |
| Dial-up over the voiceband | 1,368,000 | 19 % | 64 to 288 kbit/s |
| Fixed wireless on LTE | 504,000 | 7 % | 20 to 60 Mbit/s |
| ISDN | 432,000 | 6 % | 128 to 384 kbit/s |
The number plan The first digit gives the kind of line
Reading a number
National numbers are nine digits. The first says what kind of line answers, the next two say which exchange maintains it, and the last six are the subscriber.
| First digit | Kind of line | Written |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short codes, three digits, free from everywhere | 112 |
| 2 | Fixed line, copper or fibre | 2 18 044 125 |
| 3 | ISDN, one number for each channel | 3 04 811 260 |
| 5 | SIP endpoint, no wire of its own | 5 66 003 918 |
| 6 | Mobile | 6 21 447 052 |
| 8 | Conference room, dialled to join a meeting | 8 00 214 776 |
| 9 | Cooperatives, communes and public bodies | 9 12 000 340 |
Digits 4 and 7 are unassigned and held in reserve. There are no premium ranges, since no call is charged.
Standing The wire belongs to the commune
A federation, over communal plant
Telephony is a federation of the twenty sub-regional line cooperatives and the service cooperatives that run the machines. It holds a licence the Republic grants and it is audited in its use of common resources.
The copper, the fibre, the ducts and the poles are communal property. Each commune holds the plant inside its boundary and votes on what is done to it. The federation operates over that plant on terms the communes set, and it cannot dig, cut or reroute anything without them.
Everything here is published
Patents are prohibited, so every specification the federation writes is free to read, copy and build from. Household modems and exchange equipment are built from the drawings published on this site.
The core network runs on published software that any person may examine. The federation excludes components whose source cannot be read.