Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dublin Number Expansion Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 91 19:49:06 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Northwestern University Lines: 33 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 270, Message 2 of 14 In article 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?). I don't know if you are referring to Ireland, but this is commonplace in my home country of Sweden. It is rather a rule than an exception that there are varying length local numbers, except in four-digit area codes (due to a nine-digit limit and a five-digit minimum for the number). Examples: Stockholm, 08, has seven-digit numbers if the number starts with 6 or 7, otherwise six digits. V{ster}s, 021, has six-digit numbers if the number starts with 1 or 3 (City of V{ster}s), otherwise five-digit numbers (surrounding areas). Actually, 020 (toll free) is the only exeption I am aware of. All 020 numbers have the maximum possible six digits. 071, pay-per-call (like U.S. 900) came after I left Sweden; it is likely to work the same way. P.S. 08 = +46 8, 021 = +46 21 etc. hpa = H. Peter Anvin (in case you wondered) * Heja Sverige! INTERNET: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu FIDONET: 1:115/989.4 HAM RADIO: N9ITP, SM4TKN RBBSNET: 8:970/101.4