Do I need to add the "+" when dialing

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TheMiz - 13 Aug 2006 14:33 GMT

I have a UK based sim card and will be traveling to France, Italy ,
Greece and Turkey and I am totally lost on making calls

Some places get me a number and they have the "+" in the front of the number

Others have "00"

Any help

Thanks

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Mike S. - 13 Aug 2006 14:45 GMT

>I have a UK based sim card and will be traveling to France, Italy ,
>Greece and Turkey and I am totally lost on making calls
>
>Some places get me a number and they have the "+" in the front of the number
>
>Others have "00"

You will almost never have a problem if you dial all calls, all the time,
in international format. That is + (or 00 ... same thing) then country
code then city code then numnber.

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Simon Templar - 13 Aug 2006 14:50 GMT

> I have a UK based sim card and will be traveling to France, Italy ,
> Greece and Turkey and I am totally lost on making calls
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>
> Thanks

The + is the default International prefix. Each country or provider
can set up their own International prefix, although I think most
countries use 00. The phone sends + to the network and it interprets
it, much like dialling 112 where the network interprets it as an
Emergency call and directs it to the appropriate service in that country.

So if you are travelling overseas it is best to have all your numbers in
the International format starting with the format. If you were calling
me here in Australia it would be +61 424 xxx xxx, where as the local
number here in Australia would be 0424 xxx xxx.

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Austinman - 15 Aug 2006 01:01 GMT

>> I have a UK based sim card and will be traveling to France, Italy ,
>> Greece and Turkey and I am totally lost on making calls
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> set up their own International prefix, although I think most countries use
> 00.

The USA uses 011, which confuses me as I travel between the UK and USA on a
regular basis :-)

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mrcamp - 15 Aug 2006 23:10 GMT

Yep! It's advisable to always store all the numbers in the internationa
aware format. As mentioned above, you dial the same from whateve
country you are in. The + will send a signal to the network which wil
automatically prepend the number with the appropriate internationa
"dial-out" code for the country you are in. Actually, my V551 and 312
manuals also suggest storing the numbers with the

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mrcamp

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