Thanks Tim,and couldn't agree more about getting a social night going when we are all paired up......great idea if we cam get a word in with the ladies that is!!!!.......I mean,I can make my understood in russian but when the ladies get together.......WOW,it might as well be chinese with a scouse accent.........:))),leaves me for dead,guess I'll have to try harder!!
Jags:
The old uns are the best.....NO DOUBT,just wish I still had the Double Six I had a few years back,lovely car terrible thirst ( like a few women I used to know)......LOL.
Like a Russian man too mate !!! They dont go far on a gallon of Vodka either !!!!
Gotta dash now though, things to do ready for the move, and the visit to Natasha in 2 weeks too !!! Thank you for the email and photo, wil write back soon :o)
some of you should catch a wake-up.
GSM is a global standard, your local fixed-line network does not.
'00' might be your country's exit-code but other's may be '09' (or whatever).
A '+' replaces these two digits on a GSM.
The next 1, 2 or even 3 digits 'aims' the call to the country, this is the country-code (address). Russia (-proper) is a seven only, and when you think it funny when you see '007' let me tell you I think it funny, or should I say backward, that your SP treats you as a moron, because by sending that they do. They should send '+7', nothing else.
The last 7 digits is always the subscriber, and of course 100 million is way insufficient for the entire world.
That's why the digits inbetween these two identifiers, country-code (1,2 or 3) and subsriber (7) is the area-code (varying between 1 and 3 digits).
This 'area-code' can also be a network code serving a pond of subscribers, no difference really.
Large countries have a single digit as country-code, simply to allow addressing multiple (identical!) subscribers, and they do this by varying either the network or the area code's, but this is as said the same thing.
Too technical?
Start with omitting your fixed-line exit code (00, 09 or whatever) and enter a + .
Look up the country she is in and enter this/these numbers next.
Ask her what the last 7 digits are of her gsm-number.
Then ask her what subscriber she uses and ask her what the second and third digit is (the first one will be a zero) she uses for calling local gsm's of her friends who subscribe tot he same SP as she does.
Also ask what the local area-code is where she lives. Some Russian SP's use this instead of an 'own' network-code / SP-code.
Then build the number you need, and depending on the number you may need to include leading zeroes AFTER the single country-code (to get a total of 11 digits excluding the +).
Doing this will give you just a few numbers to try, maybe a handful only.
Try these, at the cost of an SMS per try only (you pay per SMS, irrelevant where it goes to).
Quite simple really, but I seem to see nobody of you seems to knows this.
country code is: 44
my network code AND area code? It's a mobile! The block allocation is "07742"
maybe beter if I send you her mobile via email once I log on...
Someone in SPB gave me her mobile's number, dunno what SP she's with, but her number has got for the network-number (I'm used to that, apparently U2) the identical dialling-code for this city!
Which means this SP does not want an 'own' network-code but accepts normal dialling-code(s), making this number indistinguishable from a landline. Yeah, I know it's funny, and NOT a call-forward.
SMS on it's way..
.. and sent.
Sorry guys, 12 digits required! - dunno why, must be becauase of an ancient habit being 'different'. Not Russia or mainland Europe or anywhere else I know of.
Your 'block-allocation' is 0774 so btw, the rest is your number, and indeed this is one digit more than usual (for a dual-digit country code).
By all means mail me her number, if anything I'll promise I won't use it.