DJK (John) Robinson
djkr at msn.com
Thu Oct 11 17:44:37 CDT 2012
Well, I don't know where it's from, but ... It's not Prudhoe, UK - there are too many digits after the 01661. And I guess it has few Spanish speakers. Many countries use 0 as a prefix to their national (rather than local) numbers; this could potentially be a valid number in more than one country. So you really need the country code. And + does not stand for 00, it stands for whatever needs to be dialled in the caller's country *before* the country code. In many European countries this happens to be 00, but it isn't in Canada, Japan, Kenya nor Australia for instance. (Nor the USA) See, eg, www.countrycallingcodes.com John -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Helmut Kotsch Sent: 11 October 2012 23:10 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Foreign phone number The + in +44 stands for 00. New phones dial 00 when you push the + button. There is no way that a dialing system could dial a +. It only can dial numbers. Helmut -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Stuart McLachlan Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012 23:52 An: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] Foreign phone number That is not an intenational dial code, none start with 0. If it is a UK number (it is the right format for one) , "01661" is Prudhoe in North East England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe Internationally, it would be +44 16618745123 Located using: http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/uk_codes/search.pu blisha?Sea rch=01661&x=42&y=16 -- Stuart On 11 Oct 2012 at 17:08, Arthur Fuller wrote: > It looks like Canada. The international code for Canada is 1 or 01. > Arthur > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote: > > > Dear Lists: > > I get leads from all over the world and normally the web can ferret > > out the > > location of number. But this one stumped me: > > > > 016618745123 > > > > Anybody know where this might be? I think it's a Spanish speaking country. > > > > TIA > > > > Rocky > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com