Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!bu.edu!telecom-request From: gutierre@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: International 800 Numbers? Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 03:55:30 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: Robert Michael Gutierrez Organization: NASA Science Internet - Network Operations Center Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 175, Message 9 of 13 hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes: > Are you sure international 800 numbers exist today? If so, why do > televised ads aiming at an international audience contain those > screens full of national 800 numbers, when a single international 800 > number would do the job? True international 800 numbers don't exist, unfortunately. Wasn't CCITT working on a dialling plan to institute an international 800 system??? Consequently, here at NASA/NSI Network Ops, we have to have seven national 800 numbers (USA, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.K.), with seven different numbers to deal with, depending on where on this planet you are. > For what it's worth, auto-reverse charge numbers in the Netherlands > start with 06-0 or 06-4. That's right. Our Netherlands number starts as 06-022-XXXX. Robert Gutierrez - NASA Science Internet Network Operations. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.