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Re: use of the plus sign

From Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: use of the plus sign
Date 2019-01-29 10:05 +0000
Message-ID <gbamr0FtkdkU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <s8805e9n4ld11jjv8ebhp6u0u5nc01rch2@4ax.com>

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micky wrote:

> if I were to call 202-123-4567, a phone number in NYC,
> while I was in NYC, and I used an entry in my contact list to do it, and
> the entry had the number as 011-1-202-123-4567, would the phone company
> and the cellular company note that I'm calling FROM country 1 TO country
> 1?  And therefore it's not actually an international call

yes, which is why international travellers will generally enter all 
numbers into their mobile phones in + format

> So you might need 011-44-020-456-7890 to call a number in the UK from
> the US
>    but you'd need 00-44-020-456-7890 to call a number in the UK from
> Spain.

The 00 as the international dialling prefix holds true for most/all(?) 
of europe, but the 0 after the country code 44 for the UK should be 
omitted, some people tend to write it as

+44 (0)20 4567890

but it isn't an official format, and not everyone would know to omit the 
zero when dialling internationally, but leave it in when dialling 
nationally.

USA (and other NANP countries) live in a slightly odd bubble where the 
country code "1" and the long distance prefix "1" are the same.

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use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-01-29 04:47 -0500
  Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-01-29 10:05 +0000
    Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-01-29 10:11 +0000
      Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-01-29 06:55 -0500
    Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 10:45 +0000
      Re: use of the plus sign Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2019-02-01 12:07 +0100
        Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 11:54 +0000
          Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-02-01 10:17 -0500
          Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-01 15:28 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 16:58 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-02-01 17:29 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 18:53 +0100
                Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-01 18:05 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 19:59 +0100
              Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-01 21:09 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-01 22:08 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-02-02 00:21 -0500
                Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-02 09:23 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 23:22 +0100
                Re: use of the plus sign Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-02-02 19:27 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2019-02-01 21:58 +0000
            Re: use of the plus sign Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2019-02-02 11:12 +0100
              Re: use of the plus sign Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-02-02 18:04 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-02-02 18:12 +0000
              Re: use of the plus sign "NY" <me@privacy.net> - 2019-02-02 19:52 +0000
                Re: use of the plus sign nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-02-02 15:23 -0500
      Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 14:00 +0100
  Re: use of the plus sign "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-29 13:20 +0100
    Re: use of the plus sign micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2019-01-30 07:51 -0500
  Re: use of the plus sign Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2019-01-29 13:54 +0000
  Re: use of the plus sign Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2019-01-29 18:00 +0100
  Re: use of the plus sign Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2019-02-02 07:34 +1300

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