 Mobile Phone in Italy
B Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:19:51 +0200, Tom Peel <lepdp@freenet.de> wrote:
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>>Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
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>>>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:57:56 +0200, B
>>>Vaughan<me@> has scripted:
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>>>>I don't know what you mean by this. Land line numbers have one 0 in
>>>>front of the number, which can never be dropped. e.g., 05 33344444.
>>>>There is no "first 0".
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>>>I thought that 0 had to be dropped... oh well.
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>> It might be different from one country to another. I seem to recall
>>dialling some international number with 00, then the country code, then
>>0, then the actual number. It might have been Italy but hey, the sun is
>>shining, it's 24 degrees outside and why am I sitting in front of a
>>computer.
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> In most European countries, you have to drop the zero when you have
> the country code as a prefix. Italy also used to have this rule, but
> they changed it at some point in the late 1990s.
That was probably about the last time I made a phone call to Italy
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