It is easier to remain in touch with friends, relatives and loved ones domiciled in different parts of the world through international telephone calls.
New contacts and relationship and partnerships can be created and nourished via telephone conversations. To effectively tap into the experience of international telephone activities it is imperative to obtain not just the most up to date information in this service
sector but also the basic information that will enhance your participation.
Primarily, all telephone calls outside your local boundary falls under the broad domain of international calls. Yes, that even means a call from South Africa to Botswana explicitly falls under the category of
international calls. Therefore, to make any call outside your national boundary it is incumbent to know the country code of your call destination. The most common country codes include, +1 for the United States, +44 for the United Kingdom, +49 for Germany, +233 for Ghana and the list goes on and on.
After dialing the country code, it is necessary to know the city or town code of where your call will be going. Another illustration, making a call to a friend in
Ukraine, living in the city of Ternopil will be in this format, +380 for the country code of Ukraine then proceed to (0352) the city code of Ternopil.
If the call you are making is to a cell phone user, then the difference will be in the code of the operator or network in question. A popular network in Africa is MTN, so when calling to a national MTN operator say in Ghana, the network code to use is certainly 0244 or 0243.
Another important factor to consider is the issue of time variation. The global time is not uniform across all countries in the world therefore factor that before making any call. If this is overlooked,a
possible consequence is that, for instance you be making an official call to say, a call destination in New York from Lagos in Nigeria, which has an approximate time difference of ten hours. Chances are that your call will be made at a time that is outside the business working hours, hence you risk not receiving attention for your agenda. The Greenwich Mean Time often abbreviated, as (GMT) has become known as the global standard time in which all other times are made in reference to the GMT.
A person in a different location may be said to have either a plus or minus time with reference to GMT.
Finally, just enjoy your international telephone call experience by following the outlined steps and other equally informative resources and your nightmares will be over.
