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Subject: Re: Irish Phone Service
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Date: 30 May 90 10:49:50 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 398, Message 9 of 13


 
The reason the dialling codes from Ireland to the UK are not in the
usual international form is easily explained. The north of Ireland is
part of Ireland ( articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution) and hence it
was not acceptable to dial Belfast with an international dialling
code. As Belfast is part of British Telecom network all the Ireland to
UK codes are affected.  


David Tocher EI2AMB Dept of Mathematics,
University of Limerick, Ireland.