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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) publishes a recommendation entitled Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Web addresses. Recommendation E.123 specifies the format of telephone numbers assigned to telephones and similar communication endpoints in national telephone numbering plans.
Telephone numbers in the Philippines follow an open telephone numbering plan and an open dial plan. Both plans are regulated by the National Telecommunications Commission, an attached agency under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). The Philippines is assigned an international dialing code of +63 by ITU-T.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN), or other public and private networks.
E.164 defines a general format for international telephone numbers. Plan-conforming telephone numbers are limited to only digits and to a maximum of fifteen digits. [ 1 ] The specification divides the digit string into a country code of one to three digits, and the subscriber telephone number of a maximum of twelve digits.
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 ...
Microsoft canonical address format for telephone numbers [2] [3] derives from E.123 international notation by allowing explicit indication of area code with parentheses. The canonical format is used by the Telephony API (TAPI) , a Windows programming interface for dial-up fax, modem, and telephone equipment.
The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the 'button A' and 'button B' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use (first introduced in 1925) which could be easily modified to allow free use of the 9 digit on the rotary dial in addition to the 0 digit (then used to call the operator), without allowing free use of numbers ...