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Country calling code
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Country calling codes or country dial in codes are telephone dialing prefixes for the member countries of the International Telecommunication Union. They are defined by the ITU-T in standards E.123, the prefixes enable international direct dialing, and are also referred to as international subscriber dialing codes. Country codes are a component of the telephone numbering plan. Country codes are dialed before the telephone number. For example, the call prefix in all countries belonging to the North American Numbering Plan is 011. On GSM networks, the prefix may automatically be inserted when the user prefixes a dialed number with the plus sign, Country calling codes are prefix codes, hence, they can be organized as a tree. In each row of the table below, the country codes given in the left-most column share the same first digit, while there is a general geographic grouping to the zones, some exceptions exist for political and historical reasons. Thus, the geographical indicators below are approximations only, countries within NANP administered areas are assigned area codes as if they were all within one country. The codes below in format +1 XXX represent area code XXX within the +1 NANP zone – not a country code. Small countries, such as Iceland, were assigned three-digit codes, since the 1980s, all new assignments have been three-digit regardless of countries’ populations.164 assigned country codes as of 15 November 2016. List of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 Dialling Procedures as of 15 December 2011, complement to Recommendation ITU-T E.164 - List of Recommendation ITU-T E.164 Assigned Country Codes. Telephone and Internet Country Codes in 10 Languages
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Finland
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Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. A peninsula with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west, the country has borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north. Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of Finland, Finland is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia, which also includes Scandinavia. Finlands population is 5.5 million, and the majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region,88. 7% of the population is Finnish people who speak Finnish, a Uralic language unrelated to the Scandinavian languages, the second major group are the Finland-Swedes. In terms of area, it is the eighth largest country in Europe, Finland is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in the capital Helsinki, local governments in 311 municipalities, and an autonomous region, the Åland Islands. Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, from the late 12th century, Finland was an integral part of Sweden, a legacy reflected in the prevalence of the Swedish language and its official status. In the spirit of the notion of Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, we are not Swedes, we do not want to become Russians, let us therefore be Finns, nevertheless, in 1809, Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1906, Finland became the nation in the world to give the right to vote to all adult citizens. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Finland declared itself independent, in 1918, the fledgling state was divided by civil war, with the Bolshevik-leaning Reds supported by the equally new Soviet Russia, fighting the Whites, supported by the German Empire. After a brief attempt to establish a kingdom, the became a republic. During World War II, the Soviet Union sought repeatedly to occupy Finland, with Finland losing parts of Karelia, Salla and Kuusamo, Petsamo and some islands, Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and established an official policy of neutrality. The Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics during the Cold War era, Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialization, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. It rapidly developed an advanced economy while building an extensive Nordic-style welfare state, resulting in widespread prosperity, however, Finnish GDP growth has been negative in 2012–2014, with a preceding nadir of −8% in 2009. Finland is a top performer in numerous metrics of national performance, including education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, quality of life, a large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, though freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Finnish Constitution. The first known appearance of the name Finland is thought to be on three rune-stones. Two were found in the Swedish province of Uppland and have the inscription finlonti, the third was found in Gotland, in the Baltic Sea. It has the inscription finlandi and dates from the 13th century, the name can be assumed to be related to the tribe name Finns, which is mentioned first known time AD98. The name Suomi has uncertain origins, but a candidate for a source is the Proto-Baltic word *źemē, in addition to the close relatives of Finnish, this name is also used in the Baltic languages Latvian and Lithuanian
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Telia Company
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Telia Company AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in countries in Northern and Eastern Europe. It is headquartered in Stockholm and its stock is traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Telia Company is the result of a 2002 merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera. This merger followed shortly after Telias failed merger with Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, before privatisation Telia Company was a state telephone monopoly. Sonera on the hand had a monopoly only on trunk network calls. The separate brand names Telia and Sonera have continued to be used in the Swedish and Finnish markets respectively. Of the stock, 37% is owned by the Swedish government,3. 2% by the Finnish government, and the rest by institutions, companies, Telegrafverket was founded in 1853, when the first electric telegraph line was established between Stockholm and Uppsala. Allmänna Telefon found an equipment supplier in Lars Magnus Ericsson, in this early competition, Telegrafverket with its brand Rikstelefon was a latecomer. However, by securing a monopoly on long distance telephone lines, it was able with time to control. A de facto telephone monopoly position was reached around 1920, in 1953 the name was modernised to Televerket. The operation of the radio and TV broadcast network was spun off into a company named Teracom. On 1 July 1993 the remaining telephone and mobile operator was transformed into a government-owned shareholding company. At the height of the bubble, on 13 June 2000. In the 1980s, Televerket was a mobile network operator with the NMT system. Private competition in mobile phone systems had already broken the telephone monopoly. The most important of Telias Swedish competitors in these areas has been Tele2, SUNAB was founded as the jointly owned company that would in turn build, own and operate the joint 3G network. The history of Sonera dates back to 1917, when Suomen Lennätinlaitos was founded, in 1927, the telegraph agency was merged with the Finnish Post to form a new agency, Post and Telegraph Agency. This agency governed all long distance and international calls until 1994, in the same year, the Post and Telegraph Agency was divided to form two companies, Suomen Posti Oy, and Telecom Finland Oy
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Elisa (company)
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Elisa Oyj is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882. It was called HPY HTF until July 2000, the mobile operations of Elisa were previously known as Radiolinja. Today Elisa is a telecommunications, ICT and online service company serving 2.3 million consumer, corporate, Elisa provides environmentally sustainable services for communication and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and productivity of organisations. In Finland Elisa is the leader in mobile and fixed network subscriptions. Cooperation with Vodafone and Telenor enables globally competitive services, Elisa is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Large Cap with approximately 200,000 shareholders. Elisas revenue in 2016 was 1.64 billion euros and it employed 4,300 people, Elisa was originally established on 31 January 1882 by the electrical engineer Daniel Wadén as a telephone cooperative called the Helsinki Telephone Association. HPY began serving customers on 6 June 1882 by connecting 56 phone numbers, HPY started expanding during the 1930s by merging with smaller cooperative telephone operators. The company reached its current geographical operating field in 1958, the original form of incorporation, a mutual association, was changed to a legal cooperative in 1995. The cooperative was finally demutualised in 2000, Elisa launched the first commercial GSM service under the Radiolinja brand in 1991 and the worlds first commercial UMTS900 network on 8 November 2007. Investment company Novator Partners acquired a 10. 4% stake in Elisa in 2005 through a share swap when Elisa bought the smaller operator Saunalahti, Novator tried to revamp Elisa in December 2007, but was opposed by Finnish institutions such as Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company. In October 2008, during the Icelandic financial crisis, Novator sold its stake in Elisa to Varma for 194 million euros
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Elisa Saunalahti
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Saunalahti is a Finnish mobile phone operator and an internet service provider. The company was founded in 1998 when three middle-sized internet operators merged, the company is now owned by Elisa. In addition to DSL and mobile service, Saunalahti also offers Finnish users Voice over IP without a monthly fee. The service includes free calls to Saunalahti mobile numbers, Saunalahti doesnt operate its own cellular network and thus relies on Elisa network. Saunalahti offers various plans, most of which are cheaper than the ones offered by the parent company Elisa. Elisa joined its marketing brands together as 15 October 2014, and marketing its telecommunications-services to private personals, icelandic-led Novator acquired a large share of the company in 2005. Subsequently Elisa acquired all stock and Saunalahti was delisted from the Helsinki Stock Exchange in the first half of 2006. Helsingin hovioikeus accused in 2009 Jippii leadership of using inside information when selling its own shares, accounting mistakes, the case was studied again in 2012 in hovrätt and all 26 accusements were withdrawn. The Finnish state was obliged to pay 4 million euros from the trial
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LTE (telecommunication)
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In telecommunication, Long-Term Evolution is a standard for high-speed wireless communication for mobile phones and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies. It increases the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements, the standard is developed by the 3GPP and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9. LTE is the path for carriers with both GSM/UMTS networks and CDMA2000 networks. The different LTE frequencies and bands used in different countries mean that only multi-band phones are able to use LTE in all countries where it is supported. LTE is commonly marketed as 4G LTE, but it does not meet the criteria of a 4G wireless service, as specified in the 3GPP Release 8 and 9 document series. The requirements were set forth by the ITU-R organization in the IMT Advanced specification. The LTE Advanced standard formally satisfies the ITU-R requirements to be considered IMT-Advanced, to differentiate LTE Advanced and WiMAX-Advanced from current 4G technologies, ITU has defined them as True 4G. LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and is a trademark owned by ETSI for the wireless data communications technology. However, other nations and companies do play an role in the LTE project. The goal of LTE was to increase the capacity and speed of data networks using new DSP techniques. A further goal was the redesign and simplification of the architecture to an IP-based system with significantly reduced transfer latency compared to the 3G architecture. The LTE wireless interface is incompatible with 2G and 3G networks, LTE was first proposed by NTT DoCoMo of Japan in 2004, and studies on the new standard officially commenced in 2005. Initially, CDMA operators planned to upgrade to rival standards called UMB and WiMAX, the evolution of LTE is LTE Advanced, which was standardized in March 2011. Services are expected to commence in 2013, additional evolution known as LTE Advanced Pro have been approved in year 2015. The LTE specification provides downlink peak rates of 300 Mbit/s, uplink peak rates of 75 Mbit/s, LTE has the ability to manage fast-moving mobiles and supports multi-cast and broadcast streams. LTE supports scalable carrier bandwidths, from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz, the simpler architecture results in lower operating costs. In 2004, NTT DoCoMo of Japan proposes LTE as the international standard, in September 2006, Siemens Networks showed in collaboration with Nomor Research the first live emulation of an LTE network to the media and investors. As live applications two users streaming an HDTV video in the downlink and playing a game in the uplink have been demonstrated
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Telephone numbers in Europe
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Telephone numbers in Europe are managed by the national telecommunications authorities of each country. The country calling codes start primarily with 3 and 4, however, some countries that by the Copenhagen criteria are considered part of Europe have country codes from the Asia range, the international access code has been standardized as 00. † = Disputed state, may not be recognized as an independent state by some or all European Union members, *A variable dialing plan has different dialing procedures for local and long distance telephone calls. A call within the city or within an area is dialed only by the subscriber number, while for calls outside the area. For fixed dialing plan it is required to dial all digits of the complete telephone number, including any area codes. Calls between member states would no longer require the use of the access code 00. Instead the digit 1 was proposed for these calls, replaced by +3 for call from outside the EU, each country would have a two-digit country code after the 1 or the +3. Calls inside each country would not be affected, option 3, Creation, in addition to providing numbers for special services, of a clear European numbering identity by using the number 3 to proceed current national country codes. This would liberate up to 50 new country codes within Europe and this would create four different ways of calling someone. For example, to call a number in Berlin, in Germany, a disadvantage would have been that every local number beginning with 1 would have had to be changed. wtng. info/wtng-reg. html#Europewide
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Telephone numbers in Albania
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For domestic calls,0 must be dialed before the user number of another administrative unit. The prefix for international calls from Albania is 00, as a result, cellular phone use is very common throughout the country. The numbering plan has evolved during the last 30 years. Tirana has passed to a seven digit plan as of 2008 from a four digit plan in the communist period by adding one digit. As of March 2008, a new numbering plan was introduced in an effort to improve the quality of the service, the old plan stayed in effect in parallel to the new until 15 September 2008. The new numbering plan introduces a new digit, represented by the number 2 that is put in front of local telephone numbers country-wide, for example, to dial a Tirana number with the old plan, it would have looked like XXX XXX. With the new plan, the digit 2 is added to form 2XXX XXX, the old plan is defunct and not longer in operation. In total, there are 8 digits for every number in the country. Additionally, changes include the replacement of the Municipality of Laçs calling code with the new 53 code and this is a list of prior area codes within Albania, incorporated into the user number as of 1 January 2014. To call from one unit to another one, the digit 0 still has to be dialed first
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Telephone numbers in Austria
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This article details the use of telephone numbers in Austria. There are no standard lengths for either area codes or subscribers numbers in Austria, larger towns have shorter area codes permitting longer subscriber numbers in that area. Some examples, The assignment of mobile phone numbers can vary, in ascending numeric order,1 Telering was bought by T-Mobile in 2005. As of 2006, Telering uses the network-infrastructure of T-Mobile, as a special requirement of the European commission, many of the former transmitters and frequencies previously operated by Telering were given to Orange and Drei. 2 BoB is a discount service of A1, yesss. was a discount service of Orange, now sold to A1. Eety is a discount service of Orange, due to number portability, the code is not a safe way to evaluate the provider of a phone number. The providers assign only in exceptional cases non-existing numbers with a different prefix, however, the providers still have the administrative sovereignty over their own prefix
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Telephone numbers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The country calling code of Bosnia and Herzegovina is +387. Bosnia and Herzegovina received the code of +387 following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. An example for calling telephones in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is as follows, xxx xxx 033 xxx xxx +38733 xxx xxx This is a list of dialing codes in Bosnia, calling codes in the table are assigned to new customers by the respective provider. However, it has been possible to change the operator and retain the old calling code since 2013, while the international prefix for Yugoslavia was +38, places in Bosnia and Herzegovina were assigned phonecodes beginning with 7 and 8. If the phonecode of a city was 0xx, the postcode was xx000. Note, the codes listed below are now all obsolete, however, they are still used at times to identify places in Bosnia and Herzegovina, particularly 071,078 and 075. Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Telephone numbers in France
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The French telephone numbering plan is not only used for metropolitan France but also for the French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities. 09 Non-geographic number All geographic numbers are dialed in the ten-digit format, the international access code also changed from 19 to the International Telecommunication Unions recommended 00, bringing France into line with many other countries. When calling France from abroad, the leading zero should be omitted, for example, to call a number in Southwest France, French people usually state phone numbers as a sequence of five double-digit numbers, e. g. 0x xx xx xx xx. For numbers in the Île-de-France surrounding Paris, the old codes 3 and 6 joined the old seven digit numbers to become eight digit numbers and were assigned to the Paris area code 1, in 1996, this changed to the present ten-digit system. Following liberalisation in 1998, subscribers could access different carriers by replacing the 0 with another digit, for example, Cegetel required subscribers to dial 7, e. g. Paris 71 xx xx xx xx, instead of 01 xx xx xx xx. Similarly, the access code using Cegetel would be 70 instead of 00. The 09 prefix was introduced in September 2006 and older numbers such as 08 7X XX XX XX are replaced by 09 5X XX XX XX, guadeloupe shares its country code with the collectivities Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin). Calls between the DOMs and metropolitan France require only the 0 to be dialed. g, on 21 June 1996, Monaco similarly adopted its own country code 377, replacing access from France. Internet in France ARCEP, La numérotation, French official plan French Phone system by Whitepages World Telephone Numbering Guide, France
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Telephone numbers in Germany
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The regulation of telephone numbers in Germany is the responsibility of the Federal Network Agency of the German government. The agency has a mandate to telecommunications in Germany and other infrastructure systems, Germany has an open telephone numbering plan. There used to be no fixed lengths for either area codes or subscriber telephone numbers, as a result, dialing sequences are generally of a variable length, except for some non-geographic area codes for which subscriber numbers use a fixed-length format. It is not possible to determine unambiguously the end of a number from a prefix or the digits already dialed. This feature allows the extension of the length of numbers without revoking or changing existing numbers. Cell phone numbers in Germany are not given geographic area codes, thus they can easily be told apart from other numbers. A new numbering plan was introduced on May 3,2010, since then new landline phone numbers have a standard length of 11 digits including the area code and omitting the trunk prefix 0. Area codes remain as they are and are variable in length. The German telephone network uses 5200 geographical area codes, the length of which varies from two to five digits, with area codes only being assigned in the New States. In general, geographic area codes start with digits 02 to 09, whereas other non-geographic area codes including those for cell phone usage are assigned to 01, geographic area codes have a length of two to five digits. The maximum total length is eleven digits, geographic numbers are assigned to carriers in blocks, from which these carriers can make derivative assignments to subscribers. Subscriber numbers do not start with 0 or 11 and can be called directly from landlines within the geographic area code. Originally, the first digits following the code would indicate a smaller area within these area codes or the type of the subscriber line. However, this is no longer true as subscribers can keep their numbers when moving within a code or when switching from analogue to ISDN. Further, new carriers assign numbers from different blocks, xxxx-xxxx This is the format used for the four largest geographic areas in Germany, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich. Newly assigned numbers have a length of eight digits for the subscriber number. This is shorter than the maximum of eleven digits in other areas in order to avoid local numbers to be longer than eight digits, Numbers assigned in the past, which are generally grandfathered, may be as short as five digits. Xxxx-xxxx In area codes that use three digits, newly assigned numbers also have a length of eight digits, yielding a total length of eleven digits, grandfathered numbers may be as short as four digits
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Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland
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Numbers on the Irish Telephone Numbering Plan are regulated and assigned to operators by ComReg. Telephone numbers in Ireland are similar in format to those in many European open numbering plans, for example the UK or Germany, however, one can also dial local calls with the full area code without any difference in charge. The trunk prefix is 0 and is followed by an area code, calls made from mobile phones, however, always require the full area code and phone number. Irish area codes vary in length, between one and three digits, and subscribers numbers are between five and seven digits, Irish geographical area structured on a regional basis and follow a logical hierarchy of regions and sub-regions. These area codes correspond to the following geographical regions,01 - Greater Dublin,02 - South,04,0506,07,09. The midlands area is covered by several regional codes, Codes do not necessarily match county or provincial boundaries, as they evolved to suit technical requirements of the network as it developed over the decades. Except for the 01 area, each area is subdivided into smaller areas. Usually, the city or town in the area is 0X1. 01 — Dublin area – also extends to parts of Wicklow, Meath. 021–029 — Most of County Cork, Cork City, Bantry, Bandon,0402,0404, 041–047 and 049 — North East, Midlands and parts of Wicklow. 061–069 South West and Mid West Area 071,074 — North West Area,01 — Dublin city, County Dublin and parts of counties Kildare, Wicklow and Meath. 02 — Cork city, most of County Cork and a part of County Waterford, Cork City, Mallow, Bandon, Youghal, Fermoy, Macroom, Bantry, Skibbereen. 04 — East Coast, and parts of Midlands e. g. Drogheda, Dundalk, Longford, Mullingar, Kildare, Navan, Monaghan, Cavan, Arklow, Wicklow. 05 — Southeast & East Midlands e. g.07 — Northwest including Counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal, e. g. Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton and Bundoran, Letterkenny, Ballybofey, the prefix,088, was previously issued to the Eircell analogue service. This has subsequently been issued to Digiweb, Irish mobile telephone numbering is part of a closed numbering plan. This means that a phone number must have 10 digits. Calls to landlines, and the like, require the code on mobile phone. Mobile number portability has been in operation since 2003, while a new connection to any network will take the prefix above, there is no guarantee that a number with one of those prefixes has remained on that network
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Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan
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Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan are under a unified numbering plan with Russia with the country calling code +7. Historically, +7 was used as the Soviet Union country calling code, following the break-up of the Soviet Union, all former republics except Russia and Kazakhstan switched to new country codes. As in Russia, Kazakhstan employs a four-level open dialing plan, the international dialing prefix is 8~10 - callers dial 8, wait for a tone, and then dial 10, followed by the country code, area code and number. The long distance dialing prefix is 8 - callers dial 8, wait for a tone, under an agreement with Russia on 11 June 2006, Kazakhstan is assigned zone codes 6xx and 7xx under the unified plan. Land lines are in zone codes from 710 to 729, mobiles are in zone codes 70x and 77x. Previously, land lines used zone codes in the 3xx range, as zone codes 3xx are assigned to Russia, zone codes 3xx in Kazakhstan were changed by substituting the leading 3 with 7
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Telephone numbers in Latvia
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The Latvian telephone numbering plan is a telephone number assigning system used in Latvia. All the numbers consist of 8 digits with exceptions for special services, the assigning process is controlled by the Electronic Communications Office and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. The Latvian SSR had the +7013 area code, the original format was 8 xxx xxxx. In 1993, Latvia switched to the +371 code, the plan remained relatively the same until 2008, when a 6 was prepended to all landlines. Example number in Riga, pre-1993,86789012 1993-2008,6789012 2008-present,66789012 2x xxx xxx—mobile phones,5 xx xxxxx,6 xx xxxxx,7 xx xxxxx—landlines and other location-based numbers. The 5-series is currently reserved for future use. The 6-series is generally used for landlines and the 7-series is used with payphones throughout the country, a variety of service numbers are assigned in the 1-series with lengths shorter than the standard 8 digits. Some of these also provide 8-digit geographical numbers to be reachable from abroad. In 98% of cases, the operator can detect the location of the caller within a minute, Public Utilities Commission Electronic Communications Office numuri. lv
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Telephone numbers in the Republic of Macedonia
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The Macedonian telephone numbering plan, is the system used for assigning telephone numbers in the Republic of Macedonia. It is regulated by the Agency for Electronic Communications AEK, which responsibility for telecommunications. The country calling code of the Republic of Macedonia is +389, area codes should always be dialed, even within the country, because of the many fixed and mobile operators. The international call prefix depends on the country you are calling from, e. g.00 for most European countries, for domestic calls,0 must be dialed before the area code. For calls from the Republic of Macedonia, the prefix for international calls is 00, note, When dialing from abroad, the caller has to replace the initial zero with the longer-format +389 prefix. During Yugoslavias existence, Macedonian area codes all began with 9, on 1 October 1993, Macedonia was split from the +38 code and the 9 from the area codes was integrated into the country code. Between 2000 and 2001, the 9 in the codes was generally changed to either 3 or 4. The area codes for Skopje were changed from to, when the extra 3 was added to the beginning of Skopje numbers, new 30x and 39x exchanges became available. Communications in Macedonia Macedonian Telekom ITU allocations list Agency for Electronic Communications
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Telephone numbers in Malta
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Malta adopted a new telephone numbering plan in 2001–2002, in which telephone numbers were expanded to eight digits for fixed line and mobile numbers. Previously, fixed line numbers were six digits, while mobile, mailbox, the prefix 21 was added to Maltacom fixed line numbers. Xx xxxx 21xx xxxx +356 21xx xxxx Melita fixed line numbers have the prefix 27, 9xx xxxx 99xx xxxx +356 99xx xxxx The prefix 09 for Vodafone mobile phone numbers was changed to 99. Mobile phone numbers with the prefix 09, which were already eight digits, the digit 0 was to be dialled from outside Malta as well as domestically. 09xx xxxx 99xx xxxx +356 09xx xxxx +356 99xx xxxx Other non-geographic number ranges also changed, with the prefix for seven-digit mailbox numbers changing from 07 to 217
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Telephone numbers in Montenegro
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This is a list of dialing codes by town in Montenegro. Until Montenegro gained independence from Serbia and Montenegro, the nation was accessed through the dialing code +381. The new dialing code +382 was introduced after independence and the two codes were used in parallel until February 2007, when +382 nominally became the only acceptable code, as of 1 October 2007, +381 is used only for Serbia and +382 is the only acceptable code for Montenegro. Area codes have two digits after the initial 0 trunk prefix, and local numbers have six digits, the trunk prefix is omitted when calling from abroad. The following code prefixes are used for network groups
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Telephone numbers in Romania
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The dialling plan for mobile networks and new landline operators is closed, all subscriber numbers must be dialled in full. For landline numbers starting with 02, the plan used to be open. However, starting May 3,2008, all landline numbers must be dialled in full, during the Communist years, there was no direct international access. Numbers had 5 digits except for Bucharest, where numbers were 6 digits long, area code started with 9 and were 2 digits long for Bucharest and 3 digits long for the rest of the country. The Bucharest surrounding area had the area code 909, followed by 5 digits number, somewhere in the end of the 80s, some big cities area codes were upgraded, including the last digit of the area code into the local number, thus making it 6-digits long. However, calling between non-local areas always required dialling the area code, even when the called partys code was the same as the callers, for example, a number from Iași was 981-xx-xxx, then it became 98-1xx-xxx. A number from Suceava was 982-xx-xxx, but then it became 98-2xx-xxx, apart from Bucharest, Brașov was the first city to have 6-digit numbers. Many smaller town or rural area calling implied using manual commutation circuits operated by humans, short numbers for special services, like cab companies, were three digits long, starting with 0,00 used for checking the phone line. In 1992, it started increasing the size of a number to 7 digits in Bucharest and 6 digits in the rest of the country and by changing the prefixing scheme. The long distance code was changed from 9 to 0, the code for Bucharest became 01. For a short period, the surrounding of Bucharest had the area code 0179, the 02 code was used for calls to the Republic of Moldova. In 1993, the counties were given new area codes. The previous area code system did not follow the country administrative regions, outside county dialing required a national access code 0. In-county calling could be done without prefixes at all, calling from outside meant +40-1-xxx-xxxx for Bucharest and +40-pp-xxx-xxx for the rest of the country. An international access code for calling abroad,00, was adopted, the short numbers for special services started with 9 and were three digits long. Each town or county has its own services, callable with the same number throughout the country. The first mobile company was Telemobil and it started its service in 1993 using the analogue NMT technology, the numbers for this network were using the prefix 018-5xx-xxx and 018-6xx-xxx. As 01 was the code for Bucharest, the mobile numbers had to be dialed with the prefix included
