Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Correct Way to Write Your Phone Number Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 16:36:04 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Reply-To: rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project Lines: 36 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 163, Message 4 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu In article , telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: > I have always wondered why people write phone numbers with parenthesis > around the area code, as though it were incidental to the entire > number, i.e. (311) 555-2368? I have always wondered why people write phone numbers with no country code, as though it were incidental to the entire number, i.e. 311-555-2368? The correct way to write the number is with the country code in this format: +1 311 555 2368. Seriously though, a glance through the local phone book shows that even TPC is confused on this matter. In the first dozen pages of the Ann Arbor book we see the following numbers. Formatting is faithfully reproduced. 0 9-1-1 1 800 44ARSON 1-800-572-1308 1 517 546-2440 1 226-6400 Secret Service -- note that 10-digit is now mandatory in 313, so this number would seem to be wrong (or maybe just secret) 1-221-3131 (313) 962-4000 By the way, there are still Enterprise numbers in the book! On page 128 of the "business white pages" we have: UTA French Airlines Chicago Il An Arb Tele Only No Charge Dial Operator And Ask For ------ Enterprise-8844 Glad to see this venerable old institution still survives.