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Re: use of the plus sign

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NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> "Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message 
> news:q31s3j.cg8.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net...
> > NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> >> "Lars Enderin" <lars.enderin@telia.com> wrote in message
> >> news:72662561-2c3c-dc81-5b61-4622b13b7eff@telia.com...
> >> > 2019-02-01 11:45 skrev  NY:
> >> >> I wonder if there are any other countries which start all their 
> >> >> national
> >> >> area codes with a digit which *must* be dialled for calls within that
> >> >> country and which *must not* be dialled for calls from outside that
> >> >> country.
> >> >
> >> > Swedish area codes start with a zero inside Sweden.
> >>
> >> What advice is given to Swedish people about quoting phone numbers so 
> >> they
> >> can be dialled both from within and outside Sweden? Do they put the 0 in
> >> brackets or do they list two formats of the number? I'm interested 
> >> whether
> >> they solve the problem in the same way as the UK does.
> >
> >  Same problem and same solution (0 in brackets) in The Netherlands.
> 
> What intrigues me is that several countries (UK, Sweden, Netherlands, 
> Israel) have the same issue of a leading digit which is dialled within the 
> country but not from abroad, and yet none have done the obvious thing of 
> reprogramming their exchanges so that if a call arrives at an exchange from 
> overseas as opposed to another exchange within the country and the first 
> digit after the country code (eg 44 of UK) is a zero, discard that zero 
> before passing the rest of the digits onto the normal exchange selection 
> code.
> 
> That would mean that +44 01296 xxxxx and +44 1296 xxxxxx would be identical, 
> and avoid all the faffing around with telling people to dial two different 
> numbers (ignoring the extra +44) depending on whether or not they were 
> calling from abroad.
> 
> Apart from the one-off work of implementing that change, is there a 
> fundamental disadvantage with doing it? I presume there must be, otherwise 
> *surely* they would have done it by now. 

  I am probably (surely? :-)) out of my league and Carlos probably knows
more about this, but this page

<https://countrycode.org/uk>

seems to imply that +44 0XX is used for UK toll free calling.

  If that's true, anyone with a 0[81|00|09|03] xxx.. UK number would be
unreachable, when people would use +44 0... from outside the UK.

(The Dutch situation seems similar <https://countrycode.org/netherlands>.
And so is the situation for the other mentioned '0-country', Sweden.)

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  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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