George Arellano wrote: >Hello, Entourage:mac Talk -- On 08/27/02 4:16 AM,Robert Nicholson >(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > >> ... So let's assume I'm in the states and I keep all my US >>contacts without the country code so the phone just needs to precede the >>number with a 1 for long distance. How can you get the phone to use 001 for >>international calling? Ie. Recognise the presence of a country code and know >>that 001 is needed in _this_ location. >> >>I think it would be cool is Ericsson client had a way to transform phone >>numbers as they were sent to the phone from the vcards that come out of >>Entourage. >> >>Am I missing something? >> >> > >In your Ericcson's phonebook (or any cellphone for that matter) you need to >enter (or edit) all no's. (including local) to include the prefix "+" (hold >down the "0" key to get a "+" in a T68), followed by country code, area >code, and no. The GSM system will recognize your location and the location >you are calling and will connect correctly no matter where you are relative >to the no. you are calling. > >For sync'ng, unless the vCard already includes the "+" + country code + area >code + local no. sequence, you will have to edit it to add those once it >has been imported into your phone. > >Cheers, >George Arellano > > There is one unfortunate side affect to doing this. If you try inter-carrier SMS (between Cingular GSM and say SprintPCS CDMA), the systems that route the messages between the two carriers do not understand the +1, so a US phone number would need to be formatted as: 8005551212.
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