 Poster: A snowHead
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When in France with an English mobile phone what number would you dial
to call a French mobile with the number +33665592*** (I've deleted the last 3 No's)!
Do I dial 0033665592*** 
Thnks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Never used an English mobile phone but I'd think the easiest way is to dial +33665592***. I also save all the numbers in my phone in that form, so it doesn't matter where I am when I'm calling.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ignore the country code, just dial 665592***
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.. but out a zero in front of it .. 06xxxxxx
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Either 00 33 6 65 59 2* ** or +33 6 65 59 2* ** should work fine
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Dial +33665592***. Your phone should have a '+', sometimes you get it by pressing zero twice. Look carefully at the keypad. It will be there somewhere. '00' as the prefix probably won't work.
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| Dirty Gibson wrote: |
| Dial +33665592***. Your phone should have a '+', sometimes you get it by pressing zero twice. Look carefully at the keypad. It will be there somewhere. '00' as the prefix probably won't work. |
+ and 00 are the exact same thing.
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| paulio wrote: |
| Dirty Gibson wrote: |
| Dial +33665592***. Your phone should have a '+', sometimes you get it by pressing zero twice. Look carefully at the keypad. It will be there somewhere. '00' as the prefix probably won't work. |
+ and 00 are the exact same thing. |
... in most countries but definitely not everywhere.
The + tells the phone it is an international number and to dial the local international prefix.
The 00 is the local international prefix for most of Europe but a lot of the world use different practices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_call_prefixes
However this is all moot as if you are using a UK mobile roaming on a foreign network the call will be routed via the UK and you will need to dial as if you are in the UK. Therefore either +33 665592*** or 00 33 665592*** will work (00 being the international call prefix for the UK that tells the exchange you are making an international call, 33 being the international direct dial code for France). 0665592*** will not work as you haven't told the exchange you are dialing an international number. The call will probably fail as I don't think there are any UK numbers that begin 06.
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Flet©h,
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| 0665592*** will not work as you haven't told the exchange you are dialing an international number. |
I'm afraid that is duff information. A UK mobile does connect with local French numbers dialled in France. (I've just done it to make sure I havent lost the plot)
Bit of a moot point though as +-country code on all numbers is a better way to store them
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Mon 19-12-11 10:57; edited 1 time in total
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* moot
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paulio, Thank You -- edited 
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Agenterre, I didn't know dialling just the local call number with a UK mobile was possible - but of course I accept your experience. Does the phone company treat the call as local for billing purposes?
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Thanks peoples 
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You know it makes sense.
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'Does the phone company treat the call as local for billing purposes?'
Nope, cos you're roaming.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Does the phone company treat the call as local for billing purposes?
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 nice try.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thought that some phones or operators did some clever non-standard trickery so that it'd interpret 0xxx as your home international prefix plus std, probably to save their lazier customers re-entering all their stored numbers.
Put everything in as +XX YYY ZZZZZZZZZ and everything will work everywhere (cos that's the proper way).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You definitely should put numbers in as + rather than 00. I had a mix in my contacts on my sim, which has been fine previously, but my most recent phone (android) fails on the 00 ones when calling UK from NL.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Agenterre wrote: |
Flet©h,
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| 0665592*** will not work as you haven't told the exchange you are dialing an international number. |
I'm afraid that is duff information. A UK mobile does connect with local French numbers dialled in France. (I've just done it to make sure I havent lost the plot)
Bit of a moot point though as +-country code on all numbers is a better way to store them |
Your phone/exchange must be doing some weird non-standard trickery then.
What happens if you dial a UK number without the international bits? (i.e. 0 208 xxx xxxx) It should work as on most phones and connect with no problem, in which case I wonder how it worked out the other number was a French one?
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Flet©h, It wont connect with UK unless I use the country code when in France -- converse when I am in Uk.
Vodafone - currently Blackberry but has always worked that way with Nokia etc
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Agenterre, How weird, I've had Nokia's, Samsung's and now an iPhone that I think have worked the other way. I'm in the UK now so I can't test it but I didn't always save my numbers as +44 and I've never has a problem phoning home.
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Agenterre, Flet©h, I've had both experiences, most recently calling someone in UK from NL when I didn't realise I'd not put a +44 in front of their saved number - failed.
Let's just say you're both right and shake on it. 
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andyph, I think the NL network is particularly sensitive to that. I couldn't call out to UK numbers that I'd not put in +44. I also couldn't call them using 0044 (but I think that's my new phone). Not had that problem previously in other countries.
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wigan, It's got nothing to do with the phone. All 2G/3G phones pass the number through to the network in the same way.
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provenjohn, why don't you just try it?
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| provenjohn, why don't you just try it? |
Is it not acceptable to ask for advice now then?
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provenjohn, not proving a very effective strategy though, is it? It's going to take you longer to read all this rather inconclusive nonsense than it would just to try the three available options yourself.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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