New Dialing Rules for Spain and Italy Require TAPI Update
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1. Introduction

The numbering plan changes in Spain and Italy are not taken into
account by all versions of Windows and TAPI.

This could cause incorrect behavior of PIMphony when dialing international
numbers in canonical format (dialable numbers do not use TAPI dialing
rules) or receiving international numbers.

This note gives a status on the numbering plan changes and explains
how to correct the problem on Windows / TAPI versions that do not reflect
this change.


2. New Dialing Rules

* Numbering Plan changes for Spain (34) effective as of April 3, 1998:
  - all numbers must be dialed as full 9-digit numbers
  - current national prefix of 9 is now incorporated into the national
    number
  - international prefix 00 replaces the previous prefix of 07

  The new TAPI dialing rules should be:
  - local calls:		IG	(area code [optional] + local number)
			    or	FG	(area code + local number)	
  - long distance calls:	IG	(area code [optional] + local number)
			    or	FG	(area code + local number)
  - international calls:	00,EFG	(00 + pause + country code + area code + local number)

* Numbering Plan changes for Italy (39) effective as of June 19, 1998:
  - complete national number beginning with the digit 0 is dialed for all
    national calls (both local and national):
    0 + NDC (National Destination Code) + SN (Subscriber Numer)
  - for incoming international calls to Italian subscribers, the dialing format
    has changed from +39 NDC SN to +39 0NDC SN

  The new TAPI dialing rules should be:
  - local calls:		IG	(area code [optional] + local number)
  - long distance calls:	IG	(area code [optional] + local number)
  - international calls:	00EFG	(00 + country code + area code + local number)


3. Impacted Windows versions

* Windows 2000 Profesional:

  TAPI dialing rules are correct.

* Windows NT 4 Service Pack 4 or later:

  TAPI dialing rules are correct.

* Windows NT 4 Service Pack 3:

  TAPI dialing rules are not correct for Spain and Italy.

  To update the TAPi dialing rules, double-clic on the files
  tapi_patch_sp.reg and tapi_patch_it.reg in the nt4_sp3 directory.
  This will automatically update the registry.

* Windows 98 Second Edition:

  TAPI dialing rules are correct.

* Windows 98:

  TAPI dialing rules are not correct for Spain and Italy.

  Microsoft has corrected the problem in the Service Pack 1
  of Windows 98.
  We recommand that you upgrade to this Service Pack.
  
  Please goto the Microsoft Windows 98 System Upgrade web site
  to have a description of the content of Service Pack 1
  or go directly to
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads

* Windows 95:

  TAPI dialing rules are not correct for Spain and Italy.

  To correct, edit the file Telephon.ini in the Windows directory
  (e.g. in general C:\WINDOWS) with Notepad and change or add the two
  following lines:
  Country34=34,350,"Spain","FG","FG","00,EFG"
  Country39=39,40,"Italy","FG","FG","00EFG"
  in the section[CountryOverrides].

  You can also run the program pimini.exe in directory win95
  to change the file content automatically.


4. Microsoft References in Knownledge base

* ID: Q216565	New dialing rules for Spain and Italy require TAPI update for Windows 98
* ID: Q232972	Contents of the Microsoft Windows 98 System Update