href="tel:" and mobile numbers

Question

If I use tel: I should write the international phone code, like that.

<a href="tel:[phone]">61709</a>

So far, so good, but I can't find information on how to write a cell phone number in an "international" way, if there is one.

Answer 1

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 - Telephone Exchange specific extension.

For a mobile phone this becomes

   0 -      trunk prefix
   4 -      Area code for a mobile telephone
1234 5678 - Mobile telephone number

Now, when I want to dial via the international trunk, you need to drop the trunk prefix and replace it with the international dialing prefix

   + -      Short hand for the country trunk number
  61 -      Country code for Australia
   4 -      Area code for a mobile telephone
1234 5678 - Mobile telephone number

This is why you often find that the first digit of a telephone number is dropped when dialling internationally, even when using international prefixing to dial within the same country.

So as per the trunk prefix for Germany drop the 0 and add the +49 for Germany's international calling code (for example) giving:

<a href="tel:[phone]" class="Blondie">
    Call me, call me any, anytime
      <b>Call me (call me) I'll arrive</b>
        When you're ready we can share the wine!
</a>