Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 00:04:49 GMT From: David E A Wilson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dublin Number Expansion Message-ID: Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 276, Message 4 of 10 Lines: 23 ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant) writes: > (does anywhere else have variable length local numbers?). Yes - Sydney Australia. Up until last year we had five, six and seven digit numbers in the 02 area code. For example - from the Government page of the phone book: 2 0521 Trafficking-Law Enforcement 29 2622 Bus Travel 240 2111 Boat Moorings With the closure of the old Dalley exchange (205xx) Telecom also deleted the last five digit numbers (according to a newspaper article). More usually - if the STD area code is 0xx then numbers are nx xxxx and in capital cities (STD code 0n) the numbers are nxx xxxx. David Wilson Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong david@cs.uow.edu.au