Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 11:04:40 GMT From: Charles Bryant Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dublin Number Expansion Message-ID: Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland 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 288, Message 1 of 13 Lines: 27 In article Colum Mylod writes: > In article ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant) > writes: >> [In the 01 area...] From April 8th all numbers starting with >> 69, 8 will have a 2 added to make them 269 XXXX and 28X XXXX. > Lucky you getting some info, even if they stick in a bill too! Those > of us dialling from overseas (where publicity on the changes is zilch) > are just getting tri-tone for the numbers that changed on 8 April. I just tried dialling an 85X XXX number several times and got: "The number you have dialled has been changed to seven digits. Please place the digit two in front of the local number and dial again." ... repeated twice (and starting at a random point). If you don't get this recording you could try reporting the problem (via the international operator, I suppose). Charles Bryant (ch@dce.ie)