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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:35:05 -0400
From: "Spyros C. Bartsocas" <scb@cs.brown.edu>
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Subject: Re: German Telephone Unification
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> But anyhoo, the other thing I noticed is that in the International
> calling section, they still list "German Democratic Republic" and
> "Germany, Federal Republic of" as separate countries.  (I forgot to

The reason is that the "Eastern portion of the Federal Republic of
Germany" is still called the same way it was before it merged with the
"Western portion".  I suspect that the dialing rates are different
too.  AT&T's Reach out world plan only covers the Western Portion
(country code 49).


Spyros Bartsocas      scb@cs.brown.edu