ubiqui@uncecs.edu (Frank T. Winstead) (09/29/89)
Hello, I'm looking for documentation on making long distance calls from the US to other countries. Specificly I would like to know the number of digits in telephone numbers for different countries. I have access to various documents which list Country and City Codes. What I need to know is how many digits should follow these codes. I have seen from numbers that work that this is not always the same for all countries. The main campus library has a fair collection of International/UN/US government documents. So even a pointer to some CCITT paper or such would be helpful. I'm requesting this because part of my job is to send FAXes for people who are sometimes confused about international telephoning. Thanks, Frank Winstead [Moderator's Note: The number of digits following varies from country to country, and frequently, even within a country. That is why AT&T encourages the use of the '#' button as a terminator, or carriage return following the final digit on international calls. It tells our system here to go ahead and process what it has been given without waiting for more. Perhaps if you have specific countries in mind, Mr. Covert will respond to you in email. He is our 'resident expert' on international calls here in the Digest readership. By the way, the '#' button also speeds along calls in any instance in which the network would otherwise have to wait for a time out. For example, when dialing the number associated with a Calling Card, one need only enter the four digit PIN; yet the switch does not know that is what you are doing, and will wait patiently for the other ten digits of the card for a few seconds unless you terminate with # to speed the processing. 'Zero pound' hastens the operator in Chicago, I might add. PT]