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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
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Subject: Re: Phone numbers
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 19:36:54 EST
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> perhaps someone can add to this dissertation.

Well, alright then, I will.

I think that the 1 preceding the area code is now necessary throughout
the US, and gives access to AT&T long distance service (as opposed
to say another OCC), or will do in the future.  I don't think it has
anything to do with the country code.

Furthermore, whats so strange about making the area code optional when
the exchanges concerned are close to an area code boundary? Anomaly
or common sense?  (Note that the call would be local anyway, viz 212-718
area codes.)

When we phone other countries we don't actually dial the foreign city
code *au naturelle" but lop off any possible preceding code.  For example,
to phone Birmingham University in the UK one would dial [021] 472 1301
depending on whether you were phoning from inside or outside the Birmingham
area.  From here, you would dial  011 44 21 472 1301 - in other words,
you would drop the 021 to 21.

I use international dialling to several places in europe every now and then
from different parts of the country and the only problems i've encountered
are in what I have to do to make it a credit card call - not all phone
companies are as advanced as each other.

Seems quite simple to me...   Now if we were to get onto how the phone
companies name their circuit segments internally then we would have
real fun trying to guess what systematic form they used...

	Love,

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		Marcus Hand	{ihnp4!}pyuxt!marcus