Re: [NTLK] Phone numbers

From: Mark Ross (markr13_at_comcast.net)
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 05:38:49 PDT


On my Sprint phone, I need to dial the 011 for international calls, at
least I know that works. If there's a shortcut, someone please
enlighten me.
Mark

On Jun 28, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Robert Benschop wrote:

> On 28-jun-04, at 22:50, David Abramowitz wrote:
>> Wacky phone fun. In the US, if we dial out internationally, we must
>> use
>> the leading zero (so when I dial Israel, I start with "011"), so
>> dropping it wouldn't be an option here if I read your e-mail
>> correctly.
>
> I think Paul meant that on a GSM you can drop any international code
> and just put a '+' in front of it.
> Since I do this all of the time and never had a problem calling this
> way from either the U.S. or Canada I think that there shouldn't be a
> problem.
> Well, at least not for GSM users ;-)
> Seriously, how is this handled by older, and still widely used,
> especially in the U.S., standards?
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>

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