Calling Australia...

Cheese Head · Tue 04 May, 2004 23.14

Ok, I want to call out to australia, and i have the prefix "+61" to go in front of her number. Is that prefix for only mobiles? If not, how do I dial out to Australia? It keeps saying number not recognised. I'm using an ntl line if that helps...

Sorry to be quick and vague, but can any one help me here?

Thanks

Pete · Tue 04 May, 2004 23.21

00 61

Cheese Head · Tue 04 May, 2004 23.25

Cheers, I dont call Australia often...

Neil Jones · Tue 04 May, 2004 23.43

When you see the number in the form of +61, the + means that you dial your international dialling code. For the UK, this is 00 so when you see +61, you dial 0061 and the rest of the number.

fusionlad · Tue 04 May, 2004 23.46

and I presume +44 is the number you need to dial to get IN to the UK? Actually, don't you just press the '+' key, and drop the '0', when you phone the UK from a foreign country? Or is that just from a mobile?

Neil Jones · Wed 05 May, 2004 00.12

fusionlad wrote:and I presume +44 is the number you need to dial to get IN to the UK? Actually, don't you just press the '+' key, and drop the '0', when you phone the UK from a foreign country? Or is that just from a mobile?

IIRC:

To call the UK from abroad, you dial +44 where, as I've already said, + is the international dialling code for that country. 44 is the country code for the UK.

You also drop the initial zero as well for this method. So a number of 01234567897 is dialled from abroad as +441234567897. I wouldn't have thought that special numbers (say, 0800, 090xx or 07xxx mobiles) work in this fashion but I'm not 100% sure.

Be advised, mind, that some mobile networks will charge the earth to do this (£1.50pm is common) and also charge to receive calls in this way if you're roaming on other foreign networks when you take the call.

MarkN · Wed 05 May, 2004 20.52

Neil Jones wrote:To call the UK from abroad, you dial +44 where, as I've already said, + is the international dialling code for that country. 44 is the country code for the UK.

IIRC, telephone networks in the European Union are all (supposed to be...) using "00" as the international dialling prefix code.

sparkybpotter · Wed 05 May, 2004 22.23

In some eu contries you can just use the + on mobiles but in some eu countries you just get funny music!