g1smd - 12:34 am on Apr 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

If this stuff is going into a database, do consider breaking the phone number up into country code, area code, and local number parts as separate items.

You'll find it a lot easier to make mass data changes when a whole area is assigned a new area code, or the country code changes for a whole country - as has happened many times before.