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From: alanine.phri!roy@phri (Roy Smith)
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Subject: International dialing
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Date: 27 Jul 88 12:58:46 GMT
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> All you americans know without doubt about the 903 and 905 area codes
> that dial into Mexico.

	Interestingly enough, these area codes only cover part of Mexico.  I
can call Mexico City using area code 905, but to call Cuernavaca (about 100
km south of Mexico City) I have to dial 011-73-.... i.e. international
prefix, country code, etc).  Note that Mexico is one of those (many) places
where phone numbers are not uniform in length throughout the contry; Mexico
City has US-style 7 digit phone numbers (although they usually punctuate it
xxx-yy-zz instead of xxx-yyyy).  Cuernavaca numbers are only 6 digits.  I
wonder if that has anything to do with it?

	Another tidbit.  I was in Wales (UK) this summer and needed to call
Dublin, Ireland from a public pay phone.  I asked the operator how to place
the call and she said I should dial "trebble aught one" (0001).  What she
didn't tell me was that I should follow that with the local Dublin phone
number; I thought she was telling me how to dial a generic international
call, with 0001 to be followed by the Ireland country code.

/roy