RPG@heap.cisco.com (Richard P. Gruen) (07/29/89)
In the Netherlands (AKA Holland), country code 31,
city codes consist of the number 0 followed
by either two or four digits (but not three).
major cities have codes like 070 or 020 (The Hague and Amsterdam)
and smaller cities have the longer codes where the digit after
the leading 0 is usually the same as the similar digit of the
nearest large city.
Calls to other countries are prefixed with 09.
Most special services begin with 00 followed by one or two
other digits to select the service. For example,
009 gets you a telegram operator, 0014 gets you the marine oiperator.
000 (which you thought was the interplanetary dialling code)
gets you an operator who explains how to place calls within Holland;
0010 gets you the foreign operator for the rest of Europe; and
0016 gets you the foreign operator for the rest of the world.
Direct dial service is available to most countries (via 09)
except for calls to Italy which must be operator handled.
apparently there were too many wrong numbers when direct dialling
into Italy.
-Richard P. Gruen N6HKU rpg@heap.cisco.com