Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Is Europe going to get 8 digit numbers? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 11:30:54 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Torsten Dahlkvist Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 19 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 260, message 7 of 8 In article henry@garp.mit.edu writes: >Why is 00 more logical than 009 (or 011 in Canada and the US), or 0011 >(in Australia)? Because in most countries (outside Northern America), all area codes begin with a 0, indicating the start of "national" dialling. Another 0 would (logically) imply an even larger numbering plan - "international". Simlpe? If/when we get interplanetary dialling the logical prefix would be 000. I shudder to think what four zeroes would mean... /Torsten Torsten Dahlkvist ! "I am not now, nor have I ever ELLEMTEL Telecommunication Laboratories ! been, intimately related to P.O. Box 1505, S-125 25 ALVSJO, SWEDEN ! Dweezil Zappa!" Tel: +46 8 727 3788 ! - "Wierd" Al Yankowitz [Moderator's Note: I don't think too many countries have our penchant here in the USA for pulling zero to get the operator either. Right/wrong?? PT]