Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: London (UK) New Area Codes. Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 08:04:13 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept. Lines: 11 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 261, message 4 of 6 X-GATEWAY-WARNING: original 'Date' value not a legal date X-Original-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 14:19:45 198 When dialing into a country from outside, the leading zero must be stripped off the area code. For example dialing from Switzerland to within Switzerland one might dial 056 XX-XX-XX but from Italy to Switzerland one would dial +41 56 XX-XX-XX. (41 is the country code.) (When I was in Europe in June it took me more than a week to successfully place an International pay phone call. Quite a culture shock. On a preious trip I found Scandinavian pay phones were similarly traumatizing.) cj