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OK, apparently I am too stupid to figure this out, but... How the hell
do I dail Germany from the UK?? >_<
I was under the impression that I just need to dail 0049, but I'm being
told the number doesn't exist. (The other possibility, of course, is
that the number on the website is wrong - but given that the message I'm
getting is clearly in English...)
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Am 25.06.2010 16:47, schrieb Invisible:
> OK, apparently I am too stupid to figure this out, but... How the hell
> do I dail Germany from the UK?? >_<
>
> I was under the impression that I just need to dail 0049, but I'm being
> told the number doesn't exist. (The other possibility, of course, is
> that the number on the website is wrong - but given that the message I'm
> getting is clearly in English...)
Could it possibly be that you need to dial another 0 to dial out of your
office's internal phone network?
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 +.
You're not including the leading 0 of the inner-German regional code,
are you? If, say, the number to dial in Germany is 0221-221212, then
you'd have to dial 0049-221-221212. But I guess you know that.
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.
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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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>> OK, apparently I am too stupid to figure this out, but... How the hell
>> do I dail Germany from the UK?? >_<
>>
>> I was under the impression that I just need to dail 0049, but I'm being
>> told the number doesn't exist. (The other possibility, of course, is
>> that the number on the website is wrong - but given that the message I'm
>> getting is clearly in English...)
Try dialling 0049 40 428990, that should be a (German) speaking clock...
> Could it possibly be that you need to dial another 0 to dial out of your
> office's internal phone network?
>
> 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 +.
Usefully you can use the "+" on most mobile phones, so that it always works
in any country (not all countries use "00" as the international prefix).
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scott wrote:
> Try dialling 0049 40 428990, that should be a (German) speaking clock...
And it's a clock. And it's speaking in German. Interesting.
> Usefully you can use the "+" on most mobile phones, so that it always
> works in any country (not all countries use "00" as the international
> prefix).
Really? I didn't know that...
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>> Try dialling 0049 40 428990, that should be a (German) speaking clock...
>
> And it's a clock. And it's speaking in German. Interesting.
I was going to say "it sounds really German", but then I realised how
dumb that sounds...
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> OK, apparently I am too stupid to figure this out, but... How the hell
> do I dail Germany from the UK?? >_<
>
> I was under the impression that I just need to dail 0049, but I'm being
> told the number doesn't exist. (The other possibility, of course, is
> that the number on the website is wrong - but given that the message I'm
> getting is clearly in English...)
how about you dial 0049? :P
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Am 25.06.2010 17:01, schrieb Invisible:
>> 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.
Then just dial "+49" instead of the inner-German "0" and you should be
fine (give the "*" key a long press to get the "+").
> The fun part is, even if I manage to get through, they probably all
> speak German anyway... Isn't Internet ordering fun? :-S
There's a long tradition of learning English as the first foreign
language at German schools, so you can expect at least the question "Do
you speak English?" to be understood. Typical answer would be "a bit",
and chances are you'll be able to communicate with them in your native
language. Virtually nobody will expect you to try to speak German.
Make sure though to choose a low transmission rate, do your best to
improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and expect some retransmission
requests ;-).
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Invisible wrote:
> I was under the impression that I just need to dail 0049,
I always hate when people put international numbers on web sites and then
tell you how to dial them from inside their own country.
The number should be "+49 ....". But I see all kinds of "call 01049..."
kinds of crap that doesn't even apply on half the phones in one country.
Try dialing "+49..." on your cell phone and see what you get.
Like in the USA, half the people advertise their number as a "1-800 number".
A number in the 800 area code is toll-free. The only reason there's a 1 on
front is that switches commonly in use when 800 numbers were first coming
around needed you to dial a 1 to tell it there's an area code coming up. And
even tho "1" is the USA country code (it's good to be the king), you can't
dial +1-800-... from outside the USA and get to where you want to go. So
advertising it as a 1-800 number is *wrong*. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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On 25-6-2010 18:12, clipka wrote:
> Am 25.06.2010 17:01, schrieb Invisible:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Then just dial "+49" instead of the inner-German "0" and you should be
> fine (give the "*" key a long press to get the "+").
>
>
>> The fun part is, even if I manage to get through, they probably all
>> speak German anyway... Isn't Internet ordering fun? :-S
>
> There's a long tradition of learning English as the first foreign
> language at German schools, so you can expect at least the question "Do
> you speak English?" to be understood. Typical answer would be "a bit",
> and chances are you'll be able to communicate with them in your native
> language.
Even if the answer is 'a bit' chances are that the person on the other
end of the line has a better mastery of English than your neighbour.
Especially in the relevant jargon.
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