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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
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Subject: Re: Dublin Number Expansion
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Date: 6 Apr 91 12:52:26 GMT
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In article <telecom11.266.3@eecs.nwu.edu> ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant)
writes:

 > This put Dublin in the unusual position of
 > having numbers both six and seven digits long in the same calling area
 > (does anywhere else have variable length local numbers?).
 
Yes, there are very many places where that does occur.  In Amsterdam
it was only a month ago that all six digit numbers were changed to
seven digit numbers.  Many places in Germany and Italy have variable
length numbers.  For instance, in Muenchen numbers vary from four to
eight digits.


dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland   dik@cwi.nl