Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why Not 00 as the International Prefix in the US? Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 11:22:25 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Reply-To: Piet van Oostrum Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 536, message 4 of 10 In article , dan@sics (Dan Sahlin) writes: `This is a summary and some conclusions to answers to my question: `"Why Not 00 as the International Prefix in the US?" `As no other numbers start with 00, it would be very simple in the US to `start using it as the international prefix. `instead of having 010 which is not used anywhere else in the world. The UK also has 010. Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')