Re: [Asrg] Re: Country numbers

[Michael McConnell <soruk at eridani.co.uk>]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 gep2 at terabites.com wrote:

> 00 and 001 or 011 or 0011 are often used as prefixes to indicate international 
> calling (with or without operator assistance), but (for example) in France one 
> enters "19" as the prefix for international dialing... so for example, from 
> France one might dial 19-1-212-555-1212 for NYC directory assistance.

This is rather out of date. AIUI the entire EU uses 00 for international 
calling. Indeed when I was last in France (in February) I had to use 0044... 
to call home, not 1944...

The UK switched to 00 from 010 in 1995, when all geographic area codes
switched from 0xxx to 01xxx.

> 12/09/00: the date the Republican Party took down democracy in America.

364 days /before/ 9-11?

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