msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) (12/20/89)
John R. Covert writes: > I know of no case where customers in one country can call the > directory assistance number in another country. Canada and the U.S. constitute an exception, both ways. I would suspect that the sharing of a country code (or having a notional country code that consists of another country's code plus more digits, as with the Vatican) would tend to indicate a similar degree of integration in other places. I'd be surprised if Liechtenstein and Switzerland aren't treated as one country for telephonic purposes, for instance. Within the North American area (country code 1), however,, area code 809 covers a number of small countries. I just tried 1-809-555-1212 and it gets intercepted. Are directory assistance calls from 809 to here and between 809 and the U.S. also not allowed to be direct-dialed? Mark Brader "I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. Toronto They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him." utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com -- Brad Templeton
Chris Johnston <chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> (12/27/89)
I had occasion to call directory assistance in Puerto Rico from
Chicago. Dialing 1-809-555-1212 got me an AT&T operator who answered
with "What Island?" I was then transferred to the Puerto Rican
operator who answered in Spanish then English. After looking up my
number the operator transferred me to a computer which read the number
to me (in English) with a Spanish accent!
(The 809 area code covers a large number of Caribbean islands.)
cj