myerston@cts.sri.com (11/14/89)
AT&T Overseas Operators report that we should be able to direct
dial the USSR (again!) by the end of this week. Anyone have any info
on this (Country/City Codes etc) ?????
Reading this newsletter is sometimes like re-living your life,
similar topics etc. But... am I crazy? or did it read Ed Greenberg's
long account of the Pinnacles Telephone Company here a couple of
months ago?.
[Moderator's Note: Perhaps Mr. Covert can investigate this and re-post
the pertinent parts of his last international list. Regards the
Pinnacles story, no, it did not appear here a couple months ago, but
the Digest frequently posts similar items submitted by readers.
Perhaps you are thinking of the articles on toll stations, or the
article on the rural telephone cooperative societies of a half century
ago. PT]larar@majestix.ida.liu.se (Lars Aronsson) (11/15/89)
myerston@cts.sri.com writes: <myerston@cts.sri.com> <telecom-v09i0509m05@vector.dallas.tx.us> >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 509, message 5 of 13 > AT&T Overseas Operators report that we should be able to direct >dial the USSR (again!) by the end of this week. Anyone have any info >on this (Country/City Codes etc) ????? When I talk to them in October, the Finnish Telecom had plans on enabling automatic calls on the telephone link between Helsinki and Tallinn (Estonia, USSR) in "early November". I got the impression, however, that this was only for calls from inside Finland. The international number for USSR is 7. Then there is a hierarchy of area codes for republics (states) and cicties. Some are: 012 Lithuania 012 2 Vilnius 013 Latvia 013 2 Riga 013 52 Jekabpils 013 54 Daugavpils 014 Estonia 014 2 Tallinn 014 34 Tartu 014 44 Parnu 095 Moscow (treated as a republic because of its size) Dialing is all (?) automatic inside USSR. The union-wide prefix is 8. When calling another city inside the same republic, the prefix seems to be 82. Examples: Dial Tallinn from outside USSR: (int. prefix) 7 014 2 ... Dial Tallinn from Moscow: 8 014 2 ... Dial Tallinn from Tartu: 8 2 2 ...