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As others have noted, the + doesn't make a tone, but smartphones use it as shorthand for "use whatever international access code is necessary, based on where the phone is". When I started traveling internationally, I found none of my contacts worked to call back to the US until I put the "+1" in all those numbers in my phone book. Then when I am home, the phone is smart enough to know it doesn't need the international access code to call those contacts domestically.
If your phone is from the same country as the service, you may not explicitly need the country code at all, and may just need to enter whatever is needed to call that number directly.
i know how international calling works.
it said my number is invalid when i tried to type it in the local format, and told me to type in the international format, starting with the +
Have you tried just skipping the +?
They probably don't have anyone dialing local numbers, so maybe someone thought they were being smart and not starting on 0 means international.