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Originally Posted by Przemolog
Now I realised that you can check if your iPlus is still valid. Just call its number from Russia. If you hear the message that number is unavaiable this will mean that it's still "alive". Since there's no VM, it won't cost you anything. I've just checked a Simplus which is in this one-year period and the VM answered.
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Well, I've just tried it using Skype. It says something in Polish and then the following English phrase: "The subscriber can not be reached at this time, please, try again later.". So, you are right. It should be able to get back to life when it says "try again later", eventually.
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Originally Posted by Przemolog
60x,66x,69x (x-odd) - Plus/Simplus/iPlus
60x,66x,69x (x-even) - Era/TakTak
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I have a number starting with 6978..., so it seems to be a part of 'old' numeration.
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Originally Posted by Przemolog
As to Caller ID, you mean calling from iPlus to Russian SIMs roaming in Poland?
And the +48 prefix (Poland) was replaced with +7 prefix (Russia), right?
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No it was not replaced with the Russian prefix. The prefix was not existing. I just saw 6978... as CID. Since it was normal to call back being in Poland (local numeration), this would have inevitably resulted in some problems if it had been detected outside Poland this way or on a phone with a call-back roaming feature (such as Travelsim or other international cards that do not allow direct calling). Would it have been detected the same way on Russian phone located in Russia? I'm not sure, but what was the difference? I called phones that used Era or Orange, so Plus did not have any information that those phones were in Poland, so I'm afraid this shorten CID would have been sent to Russia and shown there (or may be with +7 added in Russia).
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Originally Posted by Przemolog
in Era: the number preceded with +48
in Orange: no prefix
in Plus: the number preceded with 0.
While you were in Poland, Plus was changing its Caller ID format by dropping the leading zero. However, I have no idea if it might have affect the country prefix (I guess it didn't).
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So, you mean before Plus was detected as 0697... and currently it's just 697...? This is what I meant above, correct CID is given only with Era. For example, here it's used to add +7.. in CID for calls made to ANY direction. This is in fact more useful even at home, it allows people to add numbers to their phonebooks right after detected in the international format (thus allowing to call them from anywhere in the world with no prefix mess) and so on.