Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Albert" <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevanf1 wrote:
> I believe the + sign is there as a shortcut replacing the first two
> digits of the country code for speed purposes.

Indeed.

The other reason why the first part of the international dialing code is
normally indicated with a + sign is because it differs from country to
country.

Dialing to the USA/Canada from the UK I would dial 00 1 403 xxxxxx. 
Dialing to the USA/Canada from South Africa I would dial 09 1 403 xxxxx.
Dialing to the USA/Canada from Namibia I would dial 00 1 403 xxxxx.

If I was dialing from my mobile, I could have dialed +1 403 xxxxx and the
network would replace the + with the appropriate international dialing
prefix. When dialing from my office which has a digital PABX system I could
also dial +1 403 xxxx, but when dialing from home, which has an analogue
system I would dial 09 403 xxxx.

Also when sending a text SMS message to another mobile from my mobile I
would send it to +1 403 xxxxx as the network would know to route the message
to the correct destination network.

Albert

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