clipka wrote:

> Could it possibly be that you need to dial another 0 to dial out of your 
> office's internal phone network?

No. I'm using my mobile phone.

> Other than that, it should work from the UK: The German country code is 
> +49 indeed, and from all I see on the internet, to make an international 
> call from the UK you need to dial 00 instead of the +.

I know that dailing the USA is 001. (And this actually works.)

> You're not including the leading 0 of the inner-German regional code, 
> are you?

Don't think so...

> That said, with all the networks being digital these days, and status 
> messages probably no longer being transmitted in speech form, it may 
> well be your UK carrier that generates the "number not available" 
> message, even when you get the inner-German part of it wrong.

Yeah, I guess that's possible.

The fun part is, even if I manage to get through, they probably all 
speak German anyway... Isn't Internet ordering fun? :-S

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