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Subject: Calls to and Within Australia
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David Wilson <david@cs.uow.edu.au> writes (w/r to Australia):

>All cellular phones are in their own prefix (018).

The understanding is that the leading zero is stripped off when
calling from outside of Australia.  (This is also the case in Italy,
UK, West Germany, and elsewhere -- but NOT in the USSR.)

>It is not possible to tell if a call is local (but to an adjacent area
>code) or within an area code but at STD rates (disjoint charging
>districts) without knowing a little bit of geography and which
>exchanges are where.

How are local and long distance calls made within Australia?