On 10 Apr 2002, at 23:22, Louis JOURDAN wrote: > You seem to know a lot about canonical telephone numbering system, > therefore you can advise me : I use to write my phone number as +33 > (0)2 9927 2588. > As you certainly know it, in France as in many other European > countries (not in the UK) there is no difference in the number for > long distance or local calls : they all start with 0. However the > initial 0 is dropped when calling from a different country. For > example somebody in Belgium will call me by dialing 00 33 2 9927 2588. > Am I wrong in putting the O within parenthesis ?
incidentally, in Italy the 0 is NOT dropped if calling from a differnt country, since it define that it is a regular landline subscriber number ( 1 are special services, 3 are cell phones, 7 internet , 8 special rate services, 4 are services devined inside the network ) at the same time is is worthi to observe that calling fromn a cell phone is always acceptable dial the full international number (included the literal +) even for local calls, while fron a landline phone you get odd replies ... (for example if i dial 0039 i receive a "non exixting number" message, soon after the 39 !). Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 cel +39 3488605348 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
