"Anthony R. Gold" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:28:58 GMT, "Kieran Turner"
wrote:

Ivor Jones wrote:
"Nick Leverton" wrote in message


[snip]

In the early days of UK mobiles you could still just
dial the subscriber part of the number, provided that
they were on your own mobile company's primary range.
E.g. 0836 was (IIRC) Vodafone, and any Vodafone mobile
user could omit the code if they were calling an 0836
code. I believe this also worked for Cellnet on 0860 although
I never had a Cellnet mobile to try it.


No idea, but I can confirm it worked on the old 0836 range.

That didn't work for me from my 0860.

Mine neither and I don't remember it working on 0836 (1986-87) either.

In some parts of the USA we still have 7 digit dialing. And there I can
call from a landline to a cell phone sharing the same Area Code using just
7 digits, but the cell phones always require ten digits to call any NANP
number whether local or not.

That's because US mobile numbers are mostly in the NANP and so appear to
belong to the exchange. OTOH when mobile you are not guaranteed to be in
the local area, so to avoid possible confusion the full 10 digits are
required.


Tony