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Thread ID: 128016	2012-11-28 04:24:00	D'oh	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1315259	2012-11-28 04:24:00	Hi Team I want to send an urgent text to Billy Jnr in Dubai but it is important that he gets the message, so I want to check that my dialling details are correct. His country/area code for dialling from here via our landline is 00971 528 289 *** Using a cellphone, I am assuming that I simply send it to the same number minus one of the two leading zeros. Is that correct? Cheers Billy 8-{) :waughh:	Billy T (70)
1315260	2012-11-28 04:49:00	my guess it that it would be +971528 . . . . for texting, I text my mates in Oz with +61 . . . . . . . . . .	ronyville (10611)
1315261	2012-11-28 06:11:00	yep replace the two 0 with a +	gary67 (56)
1315262	2012-11-28 07:47:00	Sorry I'm a bit late in responding, but for what it's worth..... The + sign in your mobile phone is an abbreviation for "dial an international number". Thus you can either use to 00 or the + sign. Some folk get confused by trying to find the + sign on their home phone - most don't have one. The rich and famous who call each other around the world several times a day obviously influenced the mobile companies to give them a single key to press for international instead of getting sore thumbs having to press 0 twice!	coldot (6847)
1315263	2012-11-28 08:53:00	Thanks for that . We tried the single + but it didn't go through, so I guess you need a 'shift' key (and two thumbs!) to go with it, because it is a shared function of the 0 key anyway . One press counts as a single 0, so we did the 00 bit and the call went through on the second attempt . Quite frankly if it is shift/+ for 00 you might as well press 0 twice and be done with it, which is how I will continue to handle it in future . Cheers Billy 8-{) :thanks	Billy T (70)
1315264	2012-11-28 18:15:00	The rich and famous who call each other around the world several times a day obviously influenced the mobile companies to give them a single key to press for international instead of getting sore thumbs having to press 0 twice! More to do with the international code is not always 00 so + uses whatever is correct for the network you're on at the time.	PaulD (232)
1315265	2012-11-28 19:55:00	On most of my recent mobiles it has been "press and hold" for + sign. (A.k.a. "long press")	coldot (6847)
1315266	2012-11-30 06:25:00	I make a fair amount of international calls and always use 00, + can work sometimes but 00 always does.	hueybot3000 (3646)
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