cell/mobile numbers vs land lines

[JohnD]

....it had too many numbers....

UK phone numbers are (very nearly) invariably 11 digits long, including the leading zero, which you foreigners have to omit and replace with your own version of +44.

 

[mlb3c]

....it had too many numbers....

UK phone numbers are (very nearly) invariably 11 digits long, including the leading zero, which you foreigners have to omit and replace with your own version of +44.

well...duh...(too little, too late)
it might have helped to let me know i didnt have to dial the leading zero and why in the world you keep putting the + sign up....when there's no need.
But I am very grateful for the info......really

 

[kevplumb]

err it was only my number

 

[Softus]

why in the world you keep putting the + sign up....when there's no need.

There'a every need - the "+" sign is internationally recognised as meaning "the international access code from your own country". This convention enables a number to be given out without any knowledge of the country from which the number will be dialled.

 

[JohnD]

Us Americans are not very internationally minded. Most of us don't even have passports and we are unfamiliar with telephoning foreign countries

 

[mlb3c]

Oh....now that's helpful!

 

[JohnD]

no it's not, it's pulling your leg

 

[mlb3c]

well..."IT" needs to stop....or start on the other leg, to even me out