Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: KLUB@maristb.bitnet (Richard Budd) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finland Wants 37!! Message-ID: <15143@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:44:01 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 859, Message 10 of 13 Kauto Huopio writes in TC Digest 851: >I've heard that our PTT has made a request to obtain the former >country code of the former East Germany {Country Code 37} According to an engineer from Chemnitz, country code 37 is still being used by Germany until the area codes of E. German communities are reorganized. The German government hopes to have the new system in place by the beginning of 1991. The reason for this is obvious. Many eastern German communities have the same area codes as cities and towns in the former West Germany, but these communities are not contiguous. And of course there is the problem of two different customers in different cities miles apart having the same telephone number. Germany is going through the same difficulty with postal zip codes. For example, 8000 is the zip code for Muenchen in West Germany and Dresden in East Germany. For the time being, people mailing letters to Germany need to put a "W" in front of the zip code for former West German communities and an "O" for former East German communities. Richard Budd KLUB@MARISTB.BITNET Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY 12601