Dialling codes from Australia

[Animals4me]

Have had various answers but nothing consistent so am trying here! Wish to phone the UK from OZ using a landline and mobile so could someone tell me what digits to dial for both and the permutations. I will need to phone a landline in UK from my mobile in oZ.My UK landline begins with 017 and have been told to forget the 0 and bebin with 0044 and then the rest of the number,Then someone else said you need 11 after the 00 and it just got silly.
Hope someone can tell me.Thanks.

Also to access voicemail on my mobile in OZ do I have to dial a different number to get my messages and have something setup before leaving.It is a quad phone.Thanks again for all help.

[VHG]

Every country has an international dialling code. UK is 44.

This web site below says you need to dial 0011 first (I guess this gets you into International dialling), then 44 for UK

You drop the initial zero on the UK home numbers (so in your case 17 instead of 017) then the rest of the number as normal.

http://www.countrycal...bmit.x=23&Submit.y=24

[SimonBolivar]

017 becomes +4417......... (mobile)

[Buenchico]

This will largely duplicate what others have written, but with an important addition to the information.

To dial from a LANDLINE, or a MOBILE REGISTERED TO AN AUSTRALIAN PHONE COMPANY, you need to do the following:

First dial Australia's International Direct Dial (IDD) code:
0011
(As an alternative, using an Australian mobile, you could just press '+'. That key automatically dials the IDD of the country where a mobile phone is located).

Then dial the UK country code:
44

Then dial the UK number, including the STD code but omitting the initial '0':
17.....

So far that's no different to what others have written but here's the important addition:
Whenever you use a UK-registered mobile, all calls are automatically routed to the UK. (Even if you call someone in the next room to you in Australia, your call will still be sent via your UK phone company, and you'd need to enter their number as if you were calling from the UK). So, when using YOUR OWN MOBILE PHONE, you simply enter your NORMAL phone number, with no international codes and without omitting the initial '0'. (i.e. start with 017... , exactly as if you were calling home from a friend's house in the UK).

Chris

[LCDMAN]

Chris, you are normally 100% right, but not on this occasion.

"Whenever you use a UK-registered mobile, all calls are automatically routed to the UK. (Even if you call someone in the next room to you in Australia, your call will still be sent via your UK phone company, and you'd need to enter their number as if you were calling from the UK). So, when using YOUR OWN MOBILE PHONE, you simply enter your NORMAL phone number, with no international codes and without omitting the initial '0'. (i.e. start with 017... , exactly as if you were calling home from a friend's house in the UK). "

No, that doesn't work. Been there - done it. You STILL need to access the international dialling system of the country you are in, and give the code of the country you wish to dial, using either "+44" or "001144" in the case of Australia calling the UK. I had to change all my mobile speed dials to add "+44" when I first went out to Oz back in 2000 (and a handful of times since),

Same anywhere outside the UK - if you don't tell the local network you want to dial internationally, by using their access code, then it won't work.

[LCDMAN]

If I sit in my Aunt's house in Melbourne and want to dial my home in the UK, using my UK registered mobile, I must add "+44" to the number. If i just dial "0xxx xxxxxx" then it doesn't work.

If I sit in my Aunt's house in Melbourne and want to dial her number, using my UK registered mobile, then I just dial it - I'm connected to the Oz mobile network, not the UK one.

[Buenchico]

That's odd. It certainly doesn't match up with my experiences in many European countries (and I can see no reason why Oz should be any different). I used to dial the international codes when abroad but then I inadvertently just pressed a memory button as normal. I got through to the UK number without dialling any codes. Since then I've only ever dialled the normal UK numbers which I want to access, and I've never had any problems getting through.

Chris

[craft1948]

Why don't you just follow the instructions given in the front of the Oz phone directory?

[jno]

oh, they just say 'throw another prawn on the barbie', craft

[Buenchico]

Please don't look in the front of the Ozzie phone directory!!! It's terrifying! There's page after page about what to do when bitten by deadly snakes or spiders, or confronted by bush fires, crocodiles, sharks or load of other natural hazards.

I looked in the front of the phone directory only a few hours after landing in Oz and nearly headed straight back to the airport!
;-)

Chris