Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!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: 24 Aug 89 12:36:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 21 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 324, message 5 of 9 From article , by msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader): > 1. France seems to be the only country outside North America where what > we call the access code is not considered part of the phone number. > 3. There seems to be no country outside North America that uses 1 as an > access code; France uses 16. The fact that the access code is not part of the phone number is a rather new feature in the U.S.A. It became established when 1+ dialling was introduced. One reason why the leading 1 is not considered part of the phone number might be that 1+ dialling was introduced gradually. But direct distance dialling was already available before 1+ dialling, and there was (and still is) an access code (strictly speaking two access codes) for long distance calls: the second digit of the area code (this digit is either 1 or 0). And this access code was and is considered part of the phone number. The only difference to other countries' system is that the access code is/are not the first digits of the number. Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP