And another thing, T-Mobile…
Following on from my MISERABLE experience in Starbucks this morning where my US sodding WiFi account wouldn’t work, I have NO PLEASURE in reporting that T-Mobile UK WiFi reckons that an international mobile phone number looks like this:
00447940123456
I kid you not. I found this when I was signing up for a 24 hour pass (yes I was that annoyed and pissed off that I paid a tenner to get access. Getting up and walking out to the office was far too ridiculous a notion.)
Here’s the sign-up form:
Since when as an international mobile code included two zeros in front of it?
I typed in my number as 4477… and I got the confirmation text fine.
Goodness me.
Well… technically, they’re right. In the UK, if you want to dial an international number, you must first dial “00″.
However, other countries have different ideas as to how to dial an international number via POTS. So, in GSM, the international “number” is a plus sign. Hence, if you want to dial the UK it’s +44, Ireland is +35, Germany is +49 etc.
Interestingly, T-Mob aren’t using an Ofcom reserved number. I wonder is the owner of 07940123456 is happy to have their number used as an example - or have they don’t the smart thing and redirected it to an IVR?
Posted by Terence Eden on April 22nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm.Terance that is ewan’s own number!
Posted by Ricky C on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm.