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Originally Posted by 4X4
No, not from rome to milan. Rome to milan would be 10 digits. But, if you call from milan to geneva, which is closer than rome, you dial 13 digits.
After our friendly neighbourhood math guy calculated that with 10 digits, there are 7.5 billion numbers, I don't see the reason why europe has country codes. I suppose it could have been a territorial thing from the past that is too counterproductive to remove.
I'm just glad that all we'll have to ever dial is 10 digits within north america.
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Ahh, so you just wish there was more sharing of country codes like Canada and the US do. I think it's a bit of a sovereignty issue, that this way each country has control of it's own set of phone numbers. Plus it avoids a major mess down the road if the number of phone numbers given out passed the point where shared country codes work.