roy@phri (Roy Smith) (07/27/88)
> All you americans know without doubt about the 903 and 905 area codes > that dial into Mexico. Interestingly enough, these area codes only cover part of Mexico. I can call Mexico City using area code 905, but to call Cuernavaca (about 100 km south of Mexico City) I have to dial 011-73-.... i.e. international prefix, country code, etc). Note that Mexico is one of those (many) places where phone numbers are not uniform in length throughout the contry; Mexico City has US-style 7 digit phone numbers (although they usually punctuate it xxx-yy-zz instead of xxx-yyyy). Cuernavaca numbers are only 6 digits. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Another tidbit. I was in Wales (UK) this summer and needed to call Dublin, Ireland from a public pay phone. I asked the operator how to place the call and she said I should dial "trebble aught one" (0001). What she didn't tell me was that I should follow that with the local Dublin phone number; I thought she was telling me how to dial a generic international call, with 0001 to be followed by the Ireland country code. /roy
JDurand@cup.portal.com (11/26/90)
In article <14934@accuvax.nwu.edu> the Moderator writes: >[Moderator's Note: I just now tried it from Chicago, USA. It accepted >the entire number (that is, 011-44-81-603-four more), and the response >to me on each of several attempts was the same recorded announcement: >You call cannot be completed by the telephone company in the country >you are calling at this time. Please try your call again later." When I tried the above number from my cellular phone (GTE, with "restored" international dialing), I got a recording telling me the country area code was bad and to contact my AT&T operator for assistance (AT&T, not Sprint??). From my business MCI line, I got a recording in an English accent telling me the proper way to dial London. Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. 408 356-3886 jdurand@cup.portal.com