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The German telephone network became fully digital in 1997, allowing more flexible use of the numbering space. On 1 January 1998, the Federal Network Agency (named the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Postal Services at the time) became the numbering authority for telephone numbers in Germany.
German telephone numbers have no fixed length for area code and subscriber number (an open numbering plan). There are many ways to format a telephone number in Germany. The most prominent is DIN 5008 but the international format E.123 and Microsoft's canonical address format are also very common.
Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix 89: Telenor (Bulgaria) Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix 988: Other mobile networks: Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix Burkina Faso +226: 70: 8: Telmob: 71: 72: 74 ...
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, but also sometimes referred to as country dial-in codes, or historically international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone number dialing prefixes for reaching subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
7 (fixed or mobile), 8 (mobile) fixed 00 – Finland: 358 5 to 12 variable 00 0 France: 33 9 fixed with 0 00 0 Germany: 49 3 to 12 variable 00 0 Greece: 30 4 to 5 (company numbers) 10 (fixed and mobile) fixed 00 – Hungary: 36 8 (landline) or 9 (mobile) variable 00 06 Iceland: 354 7 (mobile and landline) or 9 (for 3xxxxxxxx) fixed 00 ...
Prefixes starting with 1 are special numbers, such as mobile telephones (15, 16, 17), shared-cost services (180), televoting numbers (13), and 10 for dial-around services. The former codes of 130 for freephone numbers and 190 for premium-rate numbers are moved to 800 and 900 to meet international standards. 700 is used for personal national ...
The presentation of a telephone number with the plus sign indicates that the number should be dialed with an international calling prefix, in place of the plus sign. The number is presented starting the country calling code. This is called the globalized format of an E.164 number, and is defined in the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC 2806. [6]
The mobile country code consists of three decimal digits and the mobile network code consists of two or three decimal digits (for example: MNC of 001 is not the same as MNC of 01). The first digit of the mobile country code identifies the geographic region as follows (the digits 1 and 8 are not used): 0: Test networks; 2: Europe