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Old April 3rd 12, 11:52 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
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Default Cell phones, British dials
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17:08:20 on Sat, 31 Mar 2012, remarked:
For our British posters, I have a question about telephone dials. Did
the letters* on British telephone dials always correspond to those of
US dials? How about those of other European countries?

1
2=ABC
3=DEF
4=GHI
5=JKL
6=MNO
7=PRS (Q added later.)
8=TUV
9=WXY (Z added later)
0 operator (US dials had a Z before 1950 but rarely used).

In the UK "Operator" is 100 on a landline, some other 3-digit code on
cellphones (varies from operator to operator - so much for standards!)

Some early Nokia Orange phones had 6=MN, 0=OQZ
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Roland Perry
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