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From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin)
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Subject: Re: I Want to Dial the Area Code Even on a Local Call
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Date: 26 May 90 14:18:22 GMT
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In Stockholm I just found out that it now is possible to dial the local
area code even for a local call.  They must have changed that fairly
recently.  Last week when I was in Dalecarlia (in the countryside) I could
not dial the local area code.  I do hope they will make it possible there
too, as Sweden has about 200 different area codes, and if you are
travelling around it is almost impossible to know in which area code you
are.

Being successful on using the local area code, I tried to use the
county code too. It worked!  I do hope I'm charged as a local call
anyway.  Are there more places in the world where you may make a local
call using the country number?

We are getting closer and closer to the ultimate goal: The number you
dial only depends on the phone you are dialing to, and not on the
phone you are dialing from.  Unfortunately Sweden uses "009" as the
international prefix, but I understand that it will be changed into
"00" within about five years.

All Stockholm numbers (08 area) starting with 4 or 5 seem to be
possible to dial with an additional leading 6. So my home number may
now alternatively be dialled as "430120" or as "00946-86430120"!


        /Dan Sahlin             email: dan@sics.se