Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!unmvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Is Europe Going to Get 8 Digit Numbers? Message-ID: Date: 7 Aug 89 03:33:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Dave Horsfall Organization: Alcatel STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 13 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 279, message 7 of 9 In article , Torsten Dahlkvist writes: | | If/when we get interplanetary dialling the logical prefix would be 000. I hope not - that's the emergency number here in Oz! Why did America choose 911 anyway? Australia is 000, Great Britain is 999. What other codes are there? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave