i live in the US, but travel. i will second this ... Vodafone in Europe will give you a discount when you dial with a '+' instead of the local access code. Probably because Europeans roam in many foreign countries each with a different access code for long distance dialing. That would be messy, detect which country the user is calling in before pattern matching the phone # ... takes time and slows down calls per minute. '+' dialing should be supported out of the box.
<br><br>Putting a '+' in your Yahoo address book and then syncing that to your phone is easy. That way, i can always dial that +0353 from whichever country i happen to be in at the time.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mr Shunz</b> <<a href="mailto:mrshunz@gmail.com">mrshunz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 8/31/07, Anthony Francis <<a href="mailto:anthonyf@rockynet.com">anthonyf@rockynet.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I don't know if you intended to be rude with the "normal<br>> human" comment but it sure seems like it when reading your
<br>> reply. Also how many users know they can dial ** to get a +?<br>> Especially when so many cannot as said earlier be relied upon<br>> to know their country access code. I guess my point is if<br>> there isn't a + key on the phone, and on most there is not,
<br>> then it simply shouldn't be used. Mindfully wanting to use a +<br>> instead of knowing the international access code seems like<br>> willful ignorance to me.<br><br>Actually here in Italy cell phone companies send you the caller
<br>id ALWAYS with the international prefix (as +39) so i (and every<br>one i know) have the address book filled with numbers like<br>+393....... Having tested various GSM + WiFi + SIP phones<br>we had to take care of this case
<br><br>actually we use to call only Italy so we have smth like:<br><br>exten => _+39.,1,Macro(dialCell)<br><br>and<br><br>[macro-dialCell]<br>exten => s,1,Dial(OH323/${MACRO_EXTEN:3}@${GATEWAY},,TW)<br><br>cheers<br>
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