Writing your mobile number in Gmail

[Soapy Sam]

I'm in Kazakhstan, which has the amazingly cool 007 International Code.
Most folk here use mobiles, often having no landline.
The mobile numbers are usually given as starting with the "+" sign, but sometimes this is replaced by 8 . No idea why.

My question- if I'm given a phone number from country X, starting with a "+" ,
1. How do I dial it from a land line which has no "+" key?
2. The mobile I use here has an 11 digit number, excluding the "+".
If I dialled that 11 digit number from the UK, would I get this phone, or one in theUK that had the same 11 digit number?

 

[zooterkin]

I'm in Kazakhstan, which has the amazingly cool 007 International Code.
Most folk here use mobiles, often having no landline.
The mobile numbers are usually given as starting with the "+" sign, but sometimes this is replaced by 8 . No idea why.

My question- if I'm given a phone number from country X, starting with a "+" ,
1. How do I dial it from a land line which has no "+" key?
2. The mobile I use here has an 11 digit number, excluding the "+".
If I dialled that 11 digit number from the UK, would I get this phone, or one in theUK that had the same 11 digit number?

You replace the '+' with the International prefix for where you are dialling from. In the UK, that's 00. (Mobile phones seem to understand '+'.)

 

[Rasmus]

You do realise that changing the length of phone numbers will require a massive reorganisation of the entire phone network?

Would it?

I have a 4 digit prefix for my mobiles, there a different lengths of prefixes for different cities (3 being the lowest, some at least as long as 5) and local phone numbers have different lengths, too. All of these numbers I can call from the USA, and I can make calls to the USA from all these numbers.

I would have assumed that using 7 digits for every number wouldn't be more than a convention rather than hardware restrictions. Especially since I cannot imagine that providers in the US use hardware build specifically for the US.