Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 11:36:37 PDT From: "John R. Covert 09-Apr-1991 1436" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Separate "City" Code for Mobile Phones Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 279, Message 1 of 12 Lines: 32 > I recently noticed a city code 836 in the UK for mobile phones. How > long has this been around? This is the way it has been done since the advent of cellular several years ago. 0836+6D is Vodaphone, 0860+6D is BT Cellnet. In Germany, 0161+7D is C-Netz. In Australia it's 018+6D. All cellular numbers, regardless of location in the country, are assigned numbers within the cellular prefix. Cellular phone users do not pay for incoming calls; the caller, regardless of location, pays for the call to the cellular customer. There is a special rate for calls to cellular phones from within the country; when calling cellular phones from outside the country, only the normal international rate applies. This creates the interesting situation that it is cheaper to call German cellular phones from outside Germany than from within Germany. Warning: Both Vodaphone and BT as well as Telecom Australia Mobilenet charge you for reaching the "it has not been possible to connect your call" recording. I believe this violates CCITT Recommendations, but I don't know how to get it fixed. Germany does not have this problem. john