mobile phone question

[dave]

Can some kind person tell me if, when calling a mobile phone in the UK from outside the UK, (From ES in fact), the leading zero is NOT needed

- as is the case with a land line.

Eg Nos given for calling the UK landline from abroad are given as: [phone] Same thing when calling a UK mobile?

Thanks

[S Viemeister]

Yes.

[dom]

Yup.

[dave]

Thanks + Thanks

[Harry Bloomfield]

dave formulated on Wednesday :

Yes, the leading zero is always missed out on both calls to LL and mobile numbers.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Normally each country has an nationally recognised 'international dial code'

This was standardised as the 'plus' sign, if the phone or network supports it. All mobiles do, so the '+' is indicative of 'go international'

So the UK code is +44

On older land based phones the plus would be replaced by whatever the local 'international' code is..IIRC in France its something weird like

19.. most other places its 0, 00 or 010

[S Viemeister]

When I call the UK from the US using a landline, I use 011. With my mobile, the + works.

[Andy Hall]

For the UK, that is true.

For calls to other countries it may not be. There are still a few cases around where the 0 in front of the city code does have to included after the country code when you call in to the country

[S Viemeister]

Italy requires the 0.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yep. I forgot that. I do know the first time I tried to make a call in france I was utterly stumped.

It was a completely non intuitive call code.