Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!cgch!wtho@uunet.uu.net (Tom Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: National Views of Access Codes Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 07:33:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 31 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 268, message 7 of 11 From article , by msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader): | 1. Are there any other countries that take what I have called the "North | American" point of view above? *All* the countries that I've been to | outside North America use the other system. | 2. Are there any other countries that allow customer-dialed, operator- | assisted calls? If so, how are they dialed? | 3. Are there any countries outside North America that use 1 as an access | code (interpreting the numbers in North American style)? So far all | the ones we've heard about use 0, except for Finland which uses 9. | 4. Is there any correlation between unusual access codes and unusual dials? | I remember that where the standard dial has 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0, there | are two nonstandard dials that have 0-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and 9-8-7-6-5- | 4-3-2-1-0, but I don't remember which are the few countries that use | them, except for New Zealand which uses the latter one. Could Finland | be one of these? -- I know that New Zealand uses an access code of 0. | On the other hand, their emergency number is 111, which is dialed the | same as the British 999! 1. France is an example---they have only two area codes, however: "1" for Paris and "" (none) for the rest of the country. French telephone numbers are always written without the access code "16". 4. I have seen 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-0 in Norway (among "normal" ones) and 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 in Sweden (both more than 10 years ago). Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP