Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!piet 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 Article-I.D.: mcvax.402 Posted: Tue Jan 8 13:09:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:04:08 EST References:<385@mcvax.UUCP> <292@scc.UUCP> Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 > 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". -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet