United Mobile changes SMS rates & adds 16 countries

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Originally Posted by dg7feq

Would be interesting to know why they block three islands somewhere in the ocean and.... Liechtenstein. Very interesting indeed....

Chris

The most possible reason for blocking these country codes is that they are used from many websites as a means of providing access if you do not have a credit card. For example voting, mp3 sites etc provide you access to their content if you call one of these numbers. The incoming costs are very high.

Also these country codes are used by many dialer programms (when using dialup internet access). So I suspect many customers have complained abou this situation and they blocked them. For Liechtenstein the code in question is +4236639.