International calls

[crapmemory]

I needed to phone France the other day and the code from London is +33. How do you call this from a landline because there is no plus sign on my phone!

[Jan1957]

Dial 0033 then the phone number.

[crapmemory]

Thank you. I think I tried virtually all combinations but I must have missed that one!

[boxtops]

They always put ++ in international numbers, I don't know why - from abroad the UK is ++44 - all you have to do is replace the ++ with 00 each time. However if you were to ring London from France you have to miss out the 0 in the usual number (so if you were say 0207****** you would dial 0044207******)

[Buenchico]

The + symbol represents an instruction to dial the international access code used in the country that you're calling from. In the UK (and many other European countries, but by no means all of them) that's 00.

By putting +, rather than any specific digits, telephone numbers can be expressed so that they'll work from ANY country as long as you know the relevant international access code. Most mobile phones now have a + button, which dials the relevant code depending upon where the phone is. (e.g. pressing + in the UK dials 00, while pressing + in Spain dials their international access code, which is 07).

Chris

[boxtops]

Cheers Chris, I didn't know that.

[suna]

0033take away the first zero of the beginning on the tphone number
example
newcastle
0044(-0-)1912??????
0033(-0-)??????????
+33(-0-)??????????