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Originally Posted by rec9140
VOIP should not carry over the mistakes of the telcos to its dialing mechanism just to keep people who probably shouldn't have VOIP any way happy.
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Agreed, that does make a lot of sense. It is much more intuitive to just dial a country code then an area code. I have found that most VoIP suppliers will accept the number without 00 anyway.
The 0 was traditionally used to distinguish local numbers starting with digits 1-9 from national numbers and then 00 to distinguish international numbers without having to wait and see how many digits were dialled.
Removing the 00 would help with using these phone numbers with computer programs like Excel which will get rid of the 00 unless you format the cell correctly.