Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cjg@stl.stc.co.uk (Christopher Gosnell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: International Access Codes Around the World Message-ID:Date: 14 Aug 89 13:14:33 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Christopher Gosnell Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 48 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 296, message 6 of 8 In article Henry Mensch writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 256, message 2 of 5 > >>PS. Isn't it about time that the world would agree on the international >>access code, i.e. the code that you replace the +-sign with in your >>international telephone number? In Sweden (and Denmark) we dial 009, >>but many in many countries in Europe it is the more logical 00. > >Why is 00 more logical than 009 (or 011 in Canada and the US), or 0011 >(in Australia)? > These are the access codes for international direct dial that I know of: Algeria 00 Austria 00 Belgium 00 Cyprus (Rep) 00 Czechoslovakia 00 (from Prague; elsewhere dial Prague followed by 00) Denmark 009 Finland 990 France 19 Germany (West) 00 Gibralter 00 Greece 00 Hungary 00 Italy 00 Luxembourg 00 Malta 0 Morocco 00 Netherlands 09 Norway 095 Portugal 00 (07 in some areas) South Africa 09 Spain 07 Sweden 009 Switzerland 00 Tunisia 00 Turkey 99 United Kingdom 010 United States 011 Yugoslavia 99 00, whether more logical or not is certainly the most widespread, at least in Europe and the Med. -- Regards Chris Gosnell ( cjg@stl.stc.co.uk +44-279-29531 Ext 2629 )