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Not to blow my own trumpet here... but I have a page of phone wiring diagrams
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Also, interesting to note the reverse dial.....
In my younger days, before I had learned of the backward NZ dial, I wondered why Auckland had been assigned STD code 09. It seemed kind of odd (bearing in mind that in Britain we were all used to London having the shortest possible code 01).

Of course, it makes perfect sense once you see this. I would still find an NZ rotary dial odd though -- Just too used to American/British I suppose.
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I believe one or more of the Nordic countries may also have used that form of dialling?

Sweden used a dial with the numbers running upwards as normal but with zero at the beginning, i.e. UK positions 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 corresponded to 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9. Again, I remember seeing their emergency number 90000 and wondering why ? Makes more sense when you consider that it would be just like dialing 01111 here.

Re the "octothorpe," the reason it's sometimes called pound is because in the U.S. the symbol can be seen after a weight as shorthand for "lb." And of course, I'm sure you're aware of BT's annoying habit of calling it "square." [Linked Image]