How to dial a + sign with a desk phone ?

[oliv]

(01-30-2017 02:12 PM)complex1 Wrote:  Please let me try to explain…

I don’t think there is a downside of this feature, but where would you want to use it for?

Mobile phones use the + sign only for international calls.
The + sign stands for international access code and this has been standardized.
On VoIP you (almost) never have to prefix the + sign if you dial a number. (national or international)

Example:
Here in Holland (The Netherlands) if we want to make an international call to e.g. Belgium we have to dial +32<number> or 0032<number>, if we want to make a call to the UK we have to dial +44<number> or 0044<number>, and so on.
So the plus sign "+" is to indicate that international calls use the international access code.

Yes, everything you said is correct but, as I require users to dial a leading 0 to an external number, international numbers require 3 leading zero (0 00 32 12345678, for a Belgian number).

I think that dialing +32 12345678 is now more natural to most of them and match the way many phone numbers are printed these days.