On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:48:51 +0100, "Philippe Deleye"
<Philippe_Deleye@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I can't believe this.
>Please tell us where you were and what local UK number you dialed in the UK
>format ??

this happened both in Poland and in the USA. In both cases I didn't
believe it either, a travelling companion (different in each case)
couldn't get through and I said something along the lines "of course
not you asshole you haven't put +44 in front and docked the zero"
however they were insistent it had worked previously and when they
handed over the phone I saw it with my own eyes.

It isn't error prone in the USA as the area codes and the long
distance prefix are both non-zero, so it would be reasonable to assume
that a UK mobile dialling 01283 xxxxxxx is calling the UK.

The CLID was also messed up in the US (ATT Wireless at the time) with
01144 added to the front and digits falling off the back. A
non-compliant mess.

>Indeed, in some countries, if you are using a provider that has a special
>agreement with your own provider, then it might be possible that they allow
>you to use the usual short codes for Voice mail ea
>
>But we were talking about real UK numbers (not special codes)

agreed

>I just repeat myself: You can only call a UK number from abroad wenn dialing
>the correct international format +44 xxx

argument by repeated assertion is not an argument. In any case the +
can be replaced by the relevant local code for international access
(00, 8, 011, whatever ).

Phil
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