Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: sergej@diku.dk (S|ren Oskar Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Numbering Change in Denmark Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 09:40:44 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 31 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 302, message 4 of 9 U5434122@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au writes: >Recently Denmark changed its system of telephone numbers and area codes, going >through a stage where the area code was compulsory even for local calls. >They moved to 8 digit numbers recently, I think, although that seems excessive >for a country of only 5 million people. ( 7 digits will serve about 15 million >people, if pushed to the limit, and that is without area codes) >Can anyone give details of the Danish situation now, please? The main reason for the change was a shortage of numbers in the central Copenhagen (our capitol - it has a population of approx. 1.2 million). Especially some of the centrals in the office district had a shortage of numbers (the two first digits of the six digit number was a central prefix). What the telcos have done is to implement a three step plan: 1) make the area code compulsory - ie. 01 for Copenhagen. 2) differentiate the area code - the 01 for Copenhagen has been split into 31,33,35,36,38,39 (no I don't know why they haven't used 32,34,37) 3) change the last 6 digits of the numbers in areas where this is needed. So far step 2 is implemented but you can still use the old area codes inside Denmark 'til next year. Sergej