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Pocket PC Forum / End Users / SmartPhones / February 2006Dialing local numbers imported from Outlook 2003 via ActiveSync 4.1 (Windows Mobile 5)
Phone numbers in Outlook 2003 are entered in the correct international format, e.g +44 (020) 71234567 for a fictitious London number. Outlook will use dialing rules correctly to omit all except the necessary parts of the number. When imported into WM 5 as contacts, the +44 (020) etc formatting comes with the number but the phone dialer then literally dials all of it, including it seems the + and the country code and maybe the () as well!!! This fails to connect. At the moment I am having to edit the entries manually to remove the +44 (020). Is there a way to get these numbers from Outlook 2003 to WM 5 contacts and have the phone dialer dial the number in the correct way? Thanks ***IMPORTANT*** Please do not reply to effluent@blueyonder.co.uk This is an antispam address. Please replace effluent with archway. In most cases, the GSM network will not understand the zero before the 20 in 020. The correct international format is +44 (20) 71234567  SignatureHelio Diamant MS-MVP/Mobile Devices www.pocketpcfreak.com > Phone numbers in Outlook 2003 are entered in the correct international > format, e.g +44 (020) 71234567 for a fictitious London number. Outlook [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > This is an antispam address. > Please replace effluent with archway. >In most cases, the GSM network will not understand the zero before the 20 in >020. > >The correct international format is +44 (20) 71234567 Thank you - you are correct; all the stuff I wrote about the + and () was my mistake - it is the leading zero, removal of which fixes the problem. What I dont understand is why outlook tolerates the leading zeros without error!! John ***IMPORTANT*** Please do not reply to effluent@blueyonder.co.uk This is an antispam address. Please replace effluent with archway. There are some countries in which the zero is accepted as part of databases used in computers. There you will see the numbers as you have written or sometimes even as +44 (0) 20 71234567. All is good as long as this is a computer, you have defined the right dialing location rules, and the dialing is being done through a landline. At the moment you get GSM in the loop, it gets all mixed, since GSM has its own intelligence for understanding the number, and they have defined the international +country (city) number standard as their standard. SignatureHelio Diamant MS-MVP/Mobile Devices www.pocketpcfreak.com >>In most cases, the GSM network will not understand the zero before the 20 >>in [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > This is an antispam address. > Please replace effluent with archway. I see - I had not realised that the standards for GSM and for landlines were different! >There are some countries in which the zero is accepted as part of databases >used in computers. There you will see the numbers as you have written or [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >own intelligence for understanding the number, and they have defined the >international +country (city) number standard as their standard. ***IMPORTANT*** Please do not reply to effluent@blueyonder.co.uk This is an antispam address. Please replace effluent with archway. The point is: the standard for GSM is only one, while there are different local standards for landlines, which only depend on computer setup, since the landline just gets whatever you dial and doesn't try to do tricks with it. GSM had to find some solution for making dialing easy when you are roaming, and thus decided to define the standard as part of the network intelligence and independent of the dialing device. SignatureHelio Diamant MS-MVP/Mobile Devices www.pocketpcfreak.com >I see - I had not realised that the standards for GSM and for > landlines were different! [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > This is an antispam address. > Please replace effluent with archway. |
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