Direct dialling to other countries became possible for the first time.

They may also require secretarial services if available at the hotel, and a direct dialling telephone.

They weren't aware that we have in the internal telephone directory all the direct dialling lines listed.

Every room has a nineteen inch colour television, tea-making facilities and a direct dialling telephone system.

International Direct Dialling (see the List of country calling codes)

Telecommunications improved dramatically after the Falklands War, when an earth station was installed to allow direct dialling for the first time.

Direct dialling into local BBS systems rapidly declined.

IDD (international direct dialling)

Blessing the fact that there was a direct dialling code, she called London and was put through to Robert Dexter with commendable speed.

Was South-West Africa (now Namibia) until 1992, when direct dialling was discontinued.

Telephoning direct Dialling from the UK, add the prefix 0033 to the numbers given here; within France, add 0.

There are 450 million telephones in the world, and 250 million of them are connected by direct dialling - untouched by hand in the exchanges.'

CALLERS to Colchester's hospitals are benefiting from a new £18,000 direct dialling system.

The PSTN network architecture had to evolve over the years to support increasing numbers of subscribers, calls, connections to other countries, direct dialling and so on.

Also, international direct dialling was being introduced and as other countries (such as the USA) had different assignments of letters to digits the opportunity for confusion existed.

They had direct dialling from the room and all he would be able to check on, if he took the trouble, was the amount of the phone charges on my bill.

Calls to and from Malaysia do not require international direct dialling (IDD) codes, a legacy of when Singapore was part of Malaysia until 1965.

Like many other organisations, the Institute has decided to introduce Direct Dialling Inwards (DDI) to provide its customers with a direct access to services and staff.

The system can be instructed to prevent individual extensions from making certain calls such as IDD (international direct dialling) and STD (subscriber trunk dialling).

International Direct Dialling (IDD) is provided, and Gibraltar was allocated the access code +350 by the International Telecommunication Union.

As a result of the reorganisation of Tanzania's numbering plan in that year, direct dialling was discontinued, although calls between the three countries do not require international dialling, only a special three-digit code.

The computerised exchange - known as Direct Dialling In (DDI)- has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards.

It was in a sorry state in all four sectors, because by July 1945, before the Western Allies took control of their sectors, the Soviets had dismantled and deported almost all automatic telephone switches, allowing direct dialling instead of operator connected calling.

These included a refusal to recognise International Direct Dialling (IDD) code which restricted the expansion of Gibraltar's telephone numbering plan, and the prevention of roaming arrangements for Gibraltar's GSM mobile phones in Spain.

The use of alphanumeric codes for exchanges was abandoned in Europe when international direct dialling was introduced in the 1960s, because (for example) dialling WHI 1212 on a French phone would get different numbers to dialling it on a British phone.