Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wugate!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: 31 Jul 89 07:59:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Torsten Dahlkvist Organization: Ellemtel Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden 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 267, message 3 of 9 >[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] Quite right. As far as I know, the zero-prefix for non-local dialling is by far the most common one. That means that dialling a single zero and waiting will just get you a "non-complete" error, whichever way the local admin handles that. The number in Sweden to get operator service is "000" for domestic calls. (We'll have to give that up when we get phones on other planets :-) There may be some connection between the numbers chosen for certain common services (like "operator" or "non-local dialling" and the actual design of the old rotary-switch dial of ancient days. See my next posting for more on that subject! /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