Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: ch%maths.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Charles Bryant) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: International Access Codes Around the World Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 89 16:25:52 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Charles Bryant Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 35 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 329, message 6 of 7 In article praxis!cdh@uunet.uu.net (Chris Hayward) writes: >The UK code for international direct dialling (IDD) is 010, as opposed to >00 as adopted by many European countries. The reason for this, I believe, is >as follows: >In the days before IDD, <00> was used as a "special" STD code for calls from > the UK (including Northern Ireland) to the Republic of Ireland. That is still the case. For example, the Dublin number (01) 234567 is dialled as 0001 234567 from the U.K. However this is not the case for all area codes. The Irish phone book has a table which translates an Irish area code into a code that is dialled from Northern Ireland (it dosen't mention the rest of the U.K. but I have experience with 01 -> 0001 so I assume its the same). Most are really strange. e.g. 01 0001 021 0002 022 010 353 22 (note 353 is international code for Ireland) 041 0011 042 0004 071 0015 078 0010 To dial a U.K. number from Ireland it is much simpler, e.g. the London number 01-234 5678 is dialled as 031 234 5678. The rule is that the U.K. area code is prefixed with 03 except when it is is 0N (n=1,2,3,4,5,6) in which case it becomes 03N. The cellular access codes are given as Cellnet=030860, Vodaphone=030836 (I assume they already include the 03). -- Charles Bryant. (ch@dce.ie) Working at Datacode Electronics Ltd. (Modem manufacturers)