Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!telecom-request From: FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: IDDD Calling Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 07:08:23 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 31 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 389, Message 8 of 13 In , K_MULLHOLAND@unhh.unh.edu (KATH MULLHOLAND) asks: > Is there a list available of the number of digits to be expected > when dialing overseas? For some countries, yes, for others no: > for example, the university phone number of one of my colleagues in > Hagen, West Germany, is long enough that some "expected number of > digits" routine at the switch of my default LD carrier tripped over > it, giving me a recorded rebuke that the number I had dialed was too > long for the international country I was dialing to. With the intervention of an overseas operator's supervisor, however, the call was successfully completed -- and yes, the number was *not* too long. Elsewhere, of course, numbers can be "too short" -- in Warsaw, most phone numbers use six digits -- for these, the country-code/city-code combination is 48/22. Newer phone numbers have seven digits, of which the first is "6", and for these the c-c/c-c c is 48/2. After the 48, it would seem that eight digits are expected. BUT: there are also *three-digit* phone numbers -- for LOT airlines reservation service, for a radio-taxi company, for a variety of other services. I've been told that +48 22 919, for example, should ring through (never having wanted to call a Warsaw cab from this side of the Atlantic, however, I've never tried it :-) ). Fred E.J. Linton Wesleyan U. Math. Dept. 649 Sci. Tower Middletown, CT 06457 E-mail: or Tel.: + 1 203 776 2210 (home) or + 1 203 347 9411 x2249 (work)