Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au!cjsv@uunet.uu.net (Christopher JS Vance) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Number Formats Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 89 01:41:54 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Computer Science, Univ. of NSW, ADFA Canberra, Australia Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 250, message 8 of 10 From article , by CAPEK%YKTVMV. BITNET (Peter G. Capek): > Separately, I'd like to ask a question about long distance access codes. In > many countries, city codes are commonly quoted with a leading 0. In all > cases that I know of, this leading 0 is really an access code, and isn't > intended to be used, for example, when the city code is dialed from outside > the country. Is there any case in which this isn't true? That is, is there > any country which has an city code which starts with a zero? I believe in Finland the code for the capital city is a 0. Presumably they use something else (like 9?) as an area code introducer. Closer to home, Australian area codes all start with a 0 which is not dialled when you come in from overseas. However, some of the area codes start with two 0s, e.g. Hobart is 002, so from the USA you'd dial something like: 011 61 02 nx xxxx to get a number in Hobart. If you leave off the 0 you'd get a number in Sydney: 011 61 2 nx xxxx But then local numbers in Sydney can be 5, 6 or 7 digits, so you might end up not dialling a full number.