Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Correct Way to Write Your Phone Number Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 22:18:58 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Lines: 43 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 163, Message 2 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 [My word, hasn't Patrick stirred up a storm on this one. All praise to the many who weighed in with the quotations from the CCITT E series. When subscriber trunk dialling was introduced here many years ago, the PMG (Telecom Australia's predecessor) ran a large publicity campaign encouraging people to use the (aaa) xxx yyyy format when printing their numbers. They have not pushed the two line national/international format to the same extent.] In article , david@wyvern.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes: > I still see organizations incorrectly listing their international > numbers in advertising etc -- a motel in Canberra is listed as follows: > Phone (06) 2ab cdef [I can't remember the exact #] > International 616 2ab cdef > I wonder if some poor soul in the USA gets calls for this motel? Worse than that, David. CSIRO ran some job advertisements in the international press last year (New Scientist, etc.) quoting their (Sydney) numbers as (612) xxx yyyy, instead of +61 2 xxx yyyy. I guess a lot of people in the (US? Canada?) 61x area codes are getting used to receiving calls intended for Australia. > What other STD/ISD dialing methods are in use in the world? In > Australia all STD area codes begin with a zero when dialed nationally > and this zero is omitted when dialing from overseas. In the USA your > area codes don't have a prefix (unless you count the 1). - From my experience most countries EXCEPT the country code '1' brigade (US/Canada/Mexico/etc) use a leading zero, which is omitted when dialling from foreign parts. I am always amused by the postings from North American readers suggesting that their (minority) approach be made the world standard. Jim Breen AARNet:jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 (fax) +61 3 573 2745