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On 23 November 2010 15:07, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi collective brain,
>
> Once again I found myself on a website today looking up the phone number of
> someone on my iPhone and went to click on the number to dial only for it to
> fail as it was listed as +44 (0)117 xxx yyyy and the phone tried to dial
> +440117xxxyyyy which obviously failed as you have to drop the 0 if you use
> the country code.
>
> Anyone know what best practice with this is? I notice our own website doing
> the same. Do you think I should just put the number down as +441179090901
> and assume uk callers add the zero? Or have the zero and hope international
> users drop the zero. Or list both?
>
> I could list it as 0117 9090901 and then uk smart phones are fine, but
> international will fail.
>
>
I am always angry about it. My approach is if you do +440117xxxyyy it
is always recognizable and clickable and it is valid number  however, google
for example gives number without national code.

I personally stores all of peaoples number with country code, as when u do
go abroad it is usefull

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