John,

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:26:40 -0500, John Ferrell wrote:

> There is a good reason that the cell phone has more numbers in the US than 
> the Landlines!

That's interesting - in the UK *all* phone numbers start with 0 and then have 10 digits following.  After many rounds of faffing about, the coding scheme has settled 
down and you can tell what you're calling from the numbers - all mobiles start with "07", for example.

You drop the initial "0" when calling in from abroad, and personally I think this is the wrong way round.  If I'd been designing it I'd have had the 0 mean "local", so 
when you're calling someone on the same exchange you dial that and the last part of the number only, shortening the number of digits overall (ie. you dial 0 and 
then omit the "area code" or "exchange" as it's known here).  But they didn't ask me!  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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