[talk-au] "Wrong" phone numbers

[stevea]

Solutions abound!

There is a pesky "only in this country toll-free dialing" sort of thing that is a number domestically (AU only) and then what appears to be its international number, something in NANPA's 710, or what is a moldy-oldy US federal government "thing" with exactly one working number (as of 2006).  So, there is some sort of "error" somewhere.  Some places that allow these do not allow any non-domestic / international way of accessing this telephonic address, there isn't any bridging.  We have this in the states, you have this in AU, it is different all over the place.

I think phone:AU:mnemonic might be a good start of something.

If you put a plus sign in front of it in your country to say "international number" it begins +61.  That's simply "Australia."  It goes up and down from there!

I wrinkle my brow at that +1-710-55 number, that's bogosity.  Maybe that works in another country or somewhere, but then you wouldn't put a + in front of it; that's an "international" phone # notation.  +1-710 (I live in NANPA-land, which is that first "1" and know it exists) is a dead-end.  Maybe somebody encoded their domestic (to Oz) dialing pattern, I don't know.  But something is misunderstood here.