Method and system for operating a field programmable line card using a country coded template

A method for programming a line interface means configured with a plurality of sets of line interface specification values in a communications network providing telephony services, wherein each one of a plurality of disparate country codes has been associated with one of a plurality of distinct sets of line interface specification values comprising:

• receiving a request message from one of a plurality network devices, each of which is associated with a unique address;
• determining a country code that corresponds to the unique address;
• determining one of a plurality of template codes that corresponds to the country code, each template code corresponding to one of the distinct sets of line interface reference values;
• returning the template code that was determined to correspond to the country code, and hence the unique address of the requesting device;
• determining a desired set of line interface specification values to provision the requesting device with based on the returned template code;
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• provisioning the line interface device with the desired set of line interface specification values that corresponds to the returned template code.