New Telephone Numbers in the Netherlands
Bob Goudreau
numbers will be changing next year:
> 3. To remove local numbers starting with the digit 1...
> This is due to a directive by the European Union where emergency
> numbers and other general numbers will start with 1 ...
Isn't this a bit of overkill on the telco's part? Does the EU
directive really cover the entire 1XX number space? I thought all
those special numbers began with 11 (e.g., 112 for emergency, similar
to 911 in the NANP). What other standard 1XX numbers will come into
being?
> 4. To remove area codes starting with 8. Also due to an EU directive
> where area code 0800 will be used for toll-free numbers.
Again, this sounds like an over-reaction, since the EU only wants to
reserve 0800, not all of 08XX. The NANP has no trouble having both
a toll-free 800 code and a number of other area codes that start
with "8" (some even start with "80").
Bob Goudreau Data General Corporation
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