tel

URL Scheme for Phone Call

The official standard for providing a telephone number as a URI is here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt It basically says use tel: as the prefix, and start the number with +[international dialling code] before the number itself. You can put non-numeric characters as separators (e.g. -) but they must be ignored. So a London (UK) number might be: … Read more

href=”tel:” and mobile numbers

When dialing a number within the country you are in, you still need to dial the national trunk number before the rest of the number. For example, in Australia one would dial: 0 – trunk prefix 2 – Area code for New South Wales 6555 – STD code for a specific telephone exchange 1234 – … Read more