Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Is Europe going to get 8 digit numbers? Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 18:49:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: SICS, Swedish Inst. of Computer Science 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 253, message 3 of 6 Within a couple of years all telephone numbers in the outer Stockholm areas will go from 5-digit to 8-digit numbers. They will all be integrated into the Stockholm area code (08) where the other numbers are 6 or 7 digits. There are about 1.5 inhabitants in this area (and about the same number of telephones), so a wisely designed number plan using just 7 digits should be possible. For some reason, I find it much harder to remember an 8-digit number than a 7 digit number, so I don't like those plans at all. I've read that Paris and Denmark have already changed into 8 digit numbers, and that Norway is planning to do the same. Are there more countries going to get 8 digit numbers in the near future? /Dan Sahlin email: dan@sics.se PS. Isn't it about time that the world would agree on the international access code, i.e. the code that you replace the +-sign with in your international telephone number? In Sweden (and Denmark) we dial 009, but many in many countries in Europe it is the more logical 00.