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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: International Phone Numbers (Answer); Stop Including The Original!
Message-ID: <403@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:18:53 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.403
Posted: Tue Jan  8 13:18:53 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:04:20 EST
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	>I just dragged down my copy of the NJBell phone book for my area,
	>and though it mentions a large number of international `country codes'
	>and `city codes', it DOES NOT mention what information we should give
	>to extranationals to dial the USA
No phone book will do that, except perhaps for mentioning the international
country code. The simple reason is that almost every country has its own
conventions for international calls. E.g. you may have to dial something
like "0" or "009" etc. before the real number. Therefore the '+' in a phone
number in international format represents the national "prefix" plus any
"prefix" a local exchange may require.

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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