On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 04:25:27 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Am 13.09.2014 01:59, schrieb Jim Henderson:
>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:36:25 -0400, Saul Luizaga wrote:
>>
>>> yy yyyy running out implement yyy yyyy your number is 12 3456 new
>>> number 012 3456 publish nation wide daily for a week: just fill out
>>> with zeros to your left.
>>> problem solved.
>>
>> Except that '0' as a phone number prefix has special meaning in various
>> places around the world.
>>
>> If I start a call in the US here with "011" (actually, now I think of
>> it,
>> that may be a global thing), that means it's an international call.
> 
> It's not a global thing; the prefix to dial out to the world differs
> between countries. For instance, here in Germany (and actually quite a
> lot of other countries) it is "00". Hence the convention to write down
> international numbers with a "+" instead.

Thanks, I've not had occasion to dial from other countries very often. :)

Jim



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