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Posted by Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile on February 28, 2008, 4:28 am
Please log in for more thread options Todd is completely right. The international standard for phone numbers is:
+country (city) number
Every GSM network knows how to translate numbers written like this. With
CDMA networks, though, this is much of a problem.
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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor - PocketPCFreak.com
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>> Hi, I've got a couple hundred international numbers in my Outlook
>> contacts, and they're all correctly set up by country so that Windows
>> can prepend the 011 when needed (if I were dialing from Windows).
>> I synchronize those contacts with my SmartPhone, but when I dial, it
>> skips the 011. Is there any way to get the phone to know when it's
>> dialing outside the US so that it'll dial the international access
>> code?
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>> Seems like such an obvious need... but maybe I searched for the wrong
>> terms or something... :)
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> Hmmm... I don't dial from Windows often, so my suggestion might "break"
> Windows dialing, so try it on just a contact or two first. Replace the
> 011 with a "+" sign- that's the GSM phone equivalent of "011" and it's
> only used when needed. Every one of my contacts, domestic or
> international is in "+ country code (area/city code) number" format (i.e.
> a New York city number would be "+1 (212) 555-1212") and dial correctly on
> my phone where ever I am in the world.
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