Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: U5434122@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Telephone Numbering Change in Denmark Message-ID:Date: 14 Aug 89 16:19:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: The University of Melbourne Lines: 13 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 298, message 1 of 12 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? Thanks, Daniel U5434122@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz.au