Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mcvax!cgch!wtho@uunet.uu.net (Tom Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: German Enclave Wants Full Swiss Status Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 12:33:44 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 24 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 354, message 1 of 8 From article , by cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB): > Buesingen is the enclave, just outside the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and > about a mile from the main part of West Germany. In PRACTICE (except for such > things as phones and license plates), the enclave is Swiss. But the pay > phones take German coins only, and calls to Schaffhausen are 9 digits and > cost 8 times as much as "domestic" calls. 9 digits are not unusual within Switzerland, neither Germany. In both countries it is about the mean number of digits of a phone number including area code. And along the borders of area codes 9 digit numbers can be required for distances of less than one mile. Buesingen is not the only place like this, anyway. Campione d'Italia is an Italian enclave in southern Switzerland. To the contrary of Buesingen they are fully integrated in the Swiss telephone system. Furthermore there are several Austrian localities which belong to the German customs area. They have both, an Austrian and a German area code (which are not the same), and they even have two different ZIP codes. One of the funny things around there is that you buy Austrian stamps and pay them in Deutsch Marks. Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP