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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: Phone numbers
Message-ID: <402@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:09:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 13:09:41 1985
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	>	In some areas of the US, it is necessary to have numbers 
	>of the form 1 (nnn) nnn-nnnn.  In others it is an error to do that.
	>If someone gave their phone number as "1 415 nnn nnnn" it would be fine
	>to dial that  number here, but it would not work in Santa Clara.
Something similar is the case in European countries. If you call Amsterdam
from within Holland, you dial 020 nnnnn; but if you dial Amsterdam from
outside Holland, you dial 20 nnnnn.
That's why in the maps the phone numbers are (should be) given in international
format, i.e.:
- +country code
- area code WITHOUT "prefix"
- subscriber number
Thus a full number could be "+31 20 5929333".

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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