Telephone Dialing In Colombia, France, and Finland (152787)

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Windows NT 4.0 includes Windows Telephony and the Telephony API (TAPI) version 2.0. One of the features of Windows Telephony is the ability to automatically use the correct outside line access codes, long distance and international prefixes, and other dialing rules based on your location and the destination of a telephone call. You specify most of this information in the Dialing Properties sheet that is accessible through the Telephony Control Panel tool and through most programs that place telephone calls. Windows Telephony includes dialing rules for local, long distance, and international calls for over 230 different countries around the world; these rules are stored in the registry.

From time to time, countries change their dialing rules; Microsoft distributes updates to the dialing rules through the World Wide Web and in new operating system releases as needed to keep up-to-date with these changes. In September, 1996, Colombia will begin using new dialing rules; in October, 1996, France and Finland will begin using new dialing rules.

Although the new rules had not gone into effect at the time Windows NT 4.0 was released to manufacturing, new dialing rules for these three countries have been included in Windows Telephony 2.0 in anticipation of these future changes. By the time systems preloaded with the local language versions of Windows NT 4.0 are available in these countries, the changes will have gone into effect. If you will be using Windows NT 4.0 in France, Finland, or Colombia before the new dialing procedures are effective, you will need to enter phone numbers in their "dialable" format (specifying all digits that need to be dialed including access codes and prefixes), bypassing the Dialing Properties settings and the new dialing rules.