Today's Bangkok paper reports the state telephone monopoly is proposing moving from 7-digit dialling to 9-digit, simply requiring adding the (02) code in front of all current 7-digit local numbers. This was instead of the previous plan to transition to 8 digits by adding a digit, since this would have cost more.
I am troubled by the news today that the international access string will no longer be e.g. +66 2 nnn-nnnn but now be +66 02 nnn-nnnn, as it is (IIRC) uniformly understood that the leading zero of a local area code is to be suppressed as part of an international dialling string. If so then Thailand is in for a lot of confusion and missing calls. What are the facts and what should be done? If Thailand is about to contravene international standards, then that should be known. In any case I would appreciate a pointer to the actual specification which I assume resides on some server in Geneva. Jeffrey Race
