Mobile Phone in Italy

B Vaughan wrote:
>
> I use the plus sign (+) instead of 00. This is not necessary for calls
> made using an Italian SIM card, but I always put the full
> international code in front of all numbers in my address book, so I
> can call them from any country.
>
>
Very sensible - I do the same. And I store the numbers in the phone
rather than the SIM, so I can change SIMs and still have all my contact
numbers available.

Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
> Make credence recognised that on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:57:56 +0200, B
> Vaughan<me@> has scripted:
>
>
>>On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:25:43 +0200, Deeply Filled Mortician
>><deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
>
>
>>>Yes, I drop the first zero from land lines, but there isn't one on my
>>>mobile number.
>>
>>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".
>
>
> I thought that 0 had to be dropped... oh well.
>
> My bad.
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.

T.

B Vaughan wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:19:51 +0200, Tom Peel <lepdp@freenet.de> wrote:
>
>
>>Deeply Filled Mortician wrote:
>>
>>>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:57:56 +0200, B
>>>Vaughan<me@> has scripted:
>
>
>>>>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".
>>>
>>>
>>>I thought that 0 had to be dropped... oh well.
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> 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
T.

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
>
> Where I grew up in the 70s, it was common for people to answer the phone
> saying the number, but in the format "Tillicoultry xxx" with xxx being a
> 3 digit number. Then this became "Tillicoultry 5xxxx" as more numbers
> were added (above the initial 50xxx) and then it became just "75xxxx"
> and now? Most people just answer "hello?"
>
What I found really odd, was answering _business_ phones with the
number, rather than the name of the place. When I worked at the
University of Edinburgh, that's how we were told to answer the phone -
'NEWington xxxx', rather than 'Animal Breeding Library".

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:39:46 +0100, d4g4hd.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>B Vaughan <me@> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:32:33 +0200, Giovanni Drogo
>> <drogo@rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >Now the entire prefix (with leading zero) is part of the number,
>> >although I've never really get used to it (as most people of at least
>> >my age). I still tend to give my "old" 8-digit number and then add "02
>> >of course".
>>
>> Many people around here also drop the prefix when telling someong a
>> phone number.
>
>Still very common in the UK. I frequently ask someone where at work for
>a taxi number, and I'm told something like "52-52-53" which is great,
>except I often don't know the area code!
>
>Where I grew up in the 70s, it was common for people to answer the phone
>saying the number, but in the format "Tillicoultry xxx" with xxx being a
>3 digit number. Then this became "Tillicoultry 5xxxx" as more numbers
>were added (above the initial 50xxx) and then it became just "75xxxx"
>and now? Most people just answer "hello?"

Except in NL, where they say SFA, both when you call and when they call.
--

Martin

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:40:04 +0200, Giovanni Drogo
<drogo@rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote:

>
>> > Where I grew up in the 70s, it was common for people to answer the phone
>> > saying the number,
>
>> > and now? Most people just answer "hello?"
>
>I've grown up earlier, and the custom to answer with a phone number or
>with one's name has never been popular in Italy. I usually answer with
>"pronto" (hello) or "pronto chi parla ?" (hello, who is speaking ?).

When I dialled an office/lab with 30 people working in it, I always found
"Pronto" unhelpful
>
>If somebody calls me, he shall know my number,

Except all those who dial wrong numbers?
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Martin

Giovanni Drogo wrote:

> > > Where I grew up in the 70s, it was common for people to answer the
phone
> > > saying the number,
>
> > > and now? Most people just answer "hello?"
>
> I've grown up earlier, and the custom to answer with a phone number or
> with one's name has never been popular in Italy. I usually answer with
> "pronto" (hello) or "pronto chi parla ?" (hello, who is speaking ?).
>


I like how the Czechs answer the phone, e.g. "Ahoj" ("Ahoy")...

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Best
Greg