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

From "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom
Subject Re: That pesky plus signs and mobile phones [telecom]
Date 2011-04-23 03:26 +0000
Organization The Telecom Digest
Message-ID <20110423032646.68899.qmail@joyce.lan> (permalink)
References <iot6il$gp1$1@dont-email.me>

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>My understanding is that "+" means "dial the international access code 
>appropriate to your location, then this number."

No, it's part of the GSM standard.  The whole point is that you can put
numbers in your phone's address book, and they will work regardless of
where in the world you use your phone.  If I use my US phone in the UK,
do I dial calls with 011 or 00?  I have no idea, I dial +.

I'm sort of surprised that VZ phones don't support them, but it does
appear to be a defect in their implementation of CDMA.  Since CDMA
phones work hardly anywhere outside NANP land, it's less of a
practical issue.

R's,
John

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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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