Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Why Not 00 as the International Prefix in the US? Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 89 11:02:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: SICS, Swedish Inst. of Computer Science Lines: 12 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 478, message 9 of 9 As I understand it, "011" is used as the international prefix in the US, whereas the international recommendation is "00". Are there some other numbers starting with 00 preventing it to be used as international prefix? In Sweden, we have some numbers starting with 00 (for instance 000 for the operator), so we cannot follow the international standard. Here, no number may be a prefix of another, but in the US the operator is reached by "0" and international calls start with "011". How is that possible? /Dan Sahlin (dan@sics.se)