UK Phone numbers in Outlook Contacts

[Guest tawse57]

Hi,

I am having a bit of a problem with my phone numbers that I have exported from my Outlook Contacts into Contacts in my t-mobile vario II - perhaps someone can help?

I put the phone numbers into Outlook Contacts using +44 for the UK as the national area code. I simply chose UK and Outlook added the +44. I then added the phone numbers per usual including 0XXX area code for land lines and 079XX for the mobile numbers. I exported these numbers via activsync into my Vario II Contacts and they show up fine.

Each number, be it a landline or a mobile number shows up as +44 0XXX or +44 079XX and then the complete number.

The problem is that when I try and dial these numbers or send test messages using the Contacts on my Vario one of two things happens:

If I ring a telephone number the number does not ring and immediately goes to voicemail at which I get a message stating that my voicemail has just been moved and I need to wait 5 minutes. This has been going on for over an hour.

If I try to text using the contacts a few minutes later I get an automated text reply stating the text could not be sent in which the messages contains text informing me that all UK mobile telephone numbers begin with +44.

So, I am obviously doing something wrong but what?

I thought you had to use +44 when imputing UK telephone numbers, be they landlines or mobiles, into mobile phones?

I manually changed one of the landline contacts in my Vario II Contacts by removing the +44 and the number rung so... anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Thanks.

Tawse.

[Guest mandt]

You need to remove the first 0 from the number,

+447xxx for mobile

+441xxx for landlines

Edited April 27, 2007 by mandt

[Guest tawse57]

Thanks mandt - I just had found the same info on my old friend google :-)

"Your Windows Mobile will dial properly as long as your contact phone numbers are correctly entered in full international format. For UK numbers, that is:

+44 (aaa) nnnnnnnn, where aaa is the area code of 2-6 digits, and nnnnnnnn is the subscriber number. Do not include an initial "0" in the number. The "0" is a dialing prefix, not part of the phone number. For example, this format is not correct:

+44 020 nnnnnnnn

The correct format is:

+44 (20) nnnnnnnn

The parentheses are optional - they'll get ignored anyway. "