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Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom]

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John Mayson  <john@mayson.us> wrote:
>At home we have AT&T and recently had T-Mobile for our cell service.
>I noticed on all phones, regardless of manufacturer, incoming SMS and
>calls without names assigned displayed in the +1xxxyyyzzzz format.
>Specifically the number is prefaced with the +1.

This is the standard international way of writing US telephone numbers.
That is, whatever the international prefix in your country is, plus 
the US country code, which is 1.

>I have a Verizon phone at work.  I only see xxx-yyy-zzzz.  What's
>more, I cannot call internationally by using the (+).  The phone
>doesn't recognize that.  I have to use 011.  My attempt to call
>+60-4-yyy-zzzz resulted in a call to Vancouver.

This is because 011 is the international dialing prefix in the US and 
Canada.

So, if you needed to call HP in London, their number is +44 344/424898.
So you would dial 011 44 344 424898 on your phone from the US.

If you were in a different country with a different international dialing
prefix, you would dial that before the country code.

>Is this difference due to GSM versus CDMA?

No, it's a matter of how you write the number not how you dial it.  You
don't dial the parentheses and dashes when you call (800) 555-1212 either.
--scott

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That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-22 12:39 -0500
  Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-22 20:30 -0400
    Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-04-23 03:26 +0000
      Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-23 14:02 -0500
      Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-24 09:29 -0400
        Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-04-24 23:48 +0000
        Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2011-04-24 19:20 +0000
          Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Richard Powderhill" <richard_powderhill@btopenworld.com> - 2011-04-26 09:36 +0100
        Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-24 15:50 -0400
        Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-25 09:22 +1000
      Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Greg Monti" <gmonti@mindspring.com> - 2011-04-26 22:53 -0400
    Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au> - 2011-04-23 16:11 +1000
    Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@hallikainen.com> - 2011-04-23 11:18 -0700
  Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-23 08:23 -0700
    Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] John Mayson <john@mayson.us> - 2011-04-23 23:45 -0500
  Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2011-04-23 00:39 +0000
    Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2011-04-24 19:38 +0000
      Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-04-25 14:49 +0000
  Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom] kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-04-24 15:48 -0400

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