Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: la063249@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why Not 00 as the International Prefix in the US? Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 89 17:23:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Bill Huttig Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 16 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 500, message 1 of 9 In article rmadison@euler.berkeley. edu (Linc Madison) writes: >Oy! I found that surprising, since in Australia the digit to dial for >calls outside a Centrex or similar system is "0" instead of "9" in >U.S. Thus, a call to the U.S. from an Australian Centrex is >0-0011-1-etc. To then have "000" as emergency seems it could have >high potential for misdials. "Emergency? No, I'm trying to reach >France!" Reminds me of when I was in Tallahasees (81-84) Centel had the Time & Temperature number of 118. I moved off campus for a semester and naturally I picked up the phone and dialed 9-118 since I was use to dialing 9 for off campus, and I got 911. Bill