Mobile abroad auto adding +44

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Just in Spain at the moment and my mate who's on Vodafone is having problems. My phones on three and it's auto connected and I can dial mobiles fine.

My mates has switchd to Vodafone ES but when he tries to call me it's getting an invalid number message. It only works if he manually changes the number to add the +44

any ideas what her doing wrong?
 
Seriously? The number will be stored on his phone as 07xxxxxxxxx, change the contact in the phone to 004407xxxxxxxxx and it will work. He's not on a UK network anymore so will need to dial 0044 every time.
 
Seriously? The number will be stored on his phone as 07xxxxxxxxx, change the contact in the phone to 004407xxxxxxxxx and it will work. He's not on a UK network anymore so will need to dial 0044 every time.


Yes SERIOUSLY. So your telling me he's got to change all his existing contacts? I've not had to do it on mine, all mine are the usual 07xxxxxx and it dials fine.

Same with someone else on an iPhone who's on T-Mobile.
 
Right could be it. I've just switched him to the same network mines connected to which is moviestar and that's now working OK.
 
Seriously? The number will be stored on his phone as 07xxxxxxxxx, change the contact in the phone to 004407xxxxxxxxx and it will work. He's not on a UK network anymore so will need to dial 0044 every time.

Seriously? Definitely don't do this!! 00 isn't a standard international call prefix and it varies from country to country, it's 010 in the US for example. Just store the numbers as +44 to avoid any problems.
 
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