covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 12-Apr-1990 2335) (04/13/90)
AT&T has begun direct dial service to the following ten countries: 964 Iraq (service being restored after several years of interruption) 95 Burma 685 Western Samoa 686 Kiribati Republic 262 Reunion 253 Djibouti 226 Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) 232 Sierra Leone 223 Mali 248 Seychelles The official due date is 15 April, but in most cases you'll find that it's in. I suspect everyone has heard the news that Albania will be able to be reached by AT&T international operators (currently manual transit through Italy is required) as of May. Direct dial service (355) will begin in September. Likewise Mayotte, currently transiting through France, will get direct operator service in May and then become dialable (269) at some future time. Mayotte has been dialable via Sprint for some time, but has only been reachable on direct access lines or in a few places (states near Minnesota) where the C.O.s put the code in without an order from AT&T. Sprint doesn't tend to request local telco installation of codes; in addition to Mayotte, Sprint provides difficult to reach direct dial service to 674 Nauru and 677 Solomon Islands. With AT&T's addition of Western Samoa and the Kiribati Republic, Sprint customers get access to Sprint's previously difficult to use direct dial service. /john