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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday April 1800- Page Canadians dialing London must dial new numbers The telephone dialling code for London England will change on May Canadians calling London will no longer dial the current ci ty code British Telecom has an nounced that this code will be replaced by 71 for inner London and si for outer London The new city codes will the available telephone numbers in London to million London a global communications centre needs more numbers to commodate the growing use of fax machines and Direct Dialling In a system which allows businesses to have individual telephone numbers instead of ex tensions On and after May Canadian callers will dial Oil international code United Kingdom country code 71 or 81 new London city code plus the seven digit number Teleglobe Canada Canada in carrier and Telecom Canada the association of Canada s major telephone com are working closely with British Telecom to communicate the change Canadian callers using the old code on May and after will have their calls intercepted and an announcement will then provide the correct codes Those callers who get through to London on the old code will hear a recorded announcement providing the correct code For example calling Heathrow airport in outer London with the old 44 1 code will hear The London area code 1 has been changed to for the number you have dialled Please replacing with 44 Canadian businesses with equip ment programmed for London numbers modems switchboards computers faxes will need to make the appropriate adjustments before the May 6 changeover Telex networks are unaffected by the code change The correct new codes are deter mined by the first three numbers or exchange code of the seven digit London number not by clear- cut geographic boundaries The 71 area inner London covers a circle of about 13 kilometres in diameter centred from Trafalgar Square plus part of the Docklands area to the east The new area outer London comprises the remainder of what was previously the area Other cities including New York Boston Chicago Geneva Zurich and Hong Kong have recently expanded their available numbers through new codes or re numbering Country wide changes to numbering were made In in 1985 and in Denmark in Cancer can be beaten Please give generously 1V f