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From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: New Area Codes and Intl. Dialling
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Date: 29 Nov 90 18:13:00 GMT
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> Try dialling 19 44 81 603 xxxx, and see if you get a French intercept.

> [Moderator's Note: I just now tried it from Chicago, USA. It accepted
> the entire number (that is, 011-44-81-603-four more), and the response
> to me on each of several attempts was the same recorded announcement
> ... Instead of playing the French recording to
> me, when AT&T heard something 'go wrong' over there, it yanked the
> connection back and played an English language message instead.  PAT]

Well, it presumably was an AT&T message, or you would have noticed an
accent.  But, although the quoted sentence refers to France and an
earlier part of that message did pertain to France, the country where
the above number would be (if it existed) *is* one where English is
spoken.

Well, a sort of English, anyway... :-)


Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com