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From: cjg@stl.stc.co.uk (Christopher Gosnell)
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Subject: International Access Codes Around the World
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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.
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Chris Gosnell      ( cjg@stl.stc.co.uk +44-279-29531 Ext 2629 )