We have a long lost friend in MUC that we are trying to contact. Below is the number that we receive from another friend. I've dialed it and found the number to be disconnected. Could any of FT MUC residents help identify if the number of digits and the prefixes are correct? Thank you for your help.

+49 89 189 70xxx

regards,
drew

The prefixes are correct. "49" is Germany, "89" takes you to Munich.

As said, prefixes are fine (49 is the country code for Germany, 89 is the area code for Munich). Unfortunately there is no fixed amount of digits to phone numbers in Germany, so you can't really tell how many digits there should be. Generally though, phone numbers in Munich have either 6, 7 or 8 digits. Also, phone numbers starting with the number 1 are perfectly valid...

You may want to consult the white pages.

you can do a "backwards search".
If you have the phone number and the person is registered in yellow pages it shows you the person to your phone number.

Here is the link:
http://www2.dasoertliche.de/?buc=&cm...ction=27&la=de

make sure you type 089 instead of +4989

this is the english version of the backwards search:

http://www2.dasoertliche.de/?buc=&cm...ction=27&la=en

can you try +49 89 70XXX

local numbers starting with 1 are highly unlikely. maybe your phone did save the number incorrecty. maybe your phone got confused with the area codes. 189 looks like an interpretation of +1 and area code 89 ...

regards
CHris

Not sure, but is 189 possibly a cell phone provider prefix, like 0171 for example? Are there eight digits to the actual number or are there any digits that you did not express in x's?

What do you dial to get out of the country? In the USA you have to dial 011 to get out of the country. So it would be 011-49-89-personal phone. In Europe you dial 001 (mostly) to get out of the country.

Till

The 018X numbers are not mobil phone providers but dedictated to T-VPNs or Centrex services. There are only a few of these numbers in use in Germany. Arcor uses eg 0181, Barmer uses 0185. (Do not mix these numbers up with the 0180-X numbers)

http://mwl.t-com.de/produkte/page.php?id=5199
http://funkschau.biz/heftarchiv/pdf/.../fs0309044.pdf

This is really a fully US-centric good one. In Europe you dial 001 not to get out of the country, but you dial it - close to exclusively - to get to the US (or better North American Numbering Plan area). 00 is the international call prefix from most European countris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._call_prefixes

00 is the ITU recommandation, however, in particular the US and regions dominated by the North American Numbering Plan area do not care about this standard (the same is true for the former USSR, Japan and some other - mostly but not exclusively odd - places).

You are, of course, fully correct in that one does not dial 001 in Europe to get out of the country but to get to the USA. I misspoke in the context of calling between Germany and the USA. As a German, living in the USA, 001 and 011 are obviously my most used prefix numbers. So for example to dial to Germany from France would be 00-49 and to France from Germany would be 00-33.

Till

Not in Munich - Moosach has many numbers starting with 1, for example.