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From: christer@ttds.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Phone Numbers
Message-ID: <800@ttds.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 21:51:22 EST
Article-I.D.: ttds.800
Posted: Mon Jan 21 21:51:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 08:05:11 EST
References: <205@cheviot.UUCP>
Reply-To: christer@ttds.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
Lines: 11
Summary: 

In article <205@cheviot.UUCP> robert@cheviot.UUCP (Robert Stroud) writes:
>I like to think of the "+" as being whatever magic sequence
>you dial to get onto the international telephone network in the particular
>country you're dialling from Once you are onto this network, what you dial
>should be
>the same WHEREVER you are.

It's almost the same. You might have to drop the first digit of the areacode.
Some countries always have same first digit of the areacode (0, 8 or 9).
This should be omitted if calling from another country. (This shouldn't
cause a trouble, as people know the first digit of their own country).