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New Zealand landline phone numbers have a total of eight digits, excluding the leading 0: a one-digit area code, and a seven-digit phone number (e.g. 09 700 1234), beginning with a digit between 2 and 9 (but excluding 900, 911, and 999 due to misdial guards). There are five regional area codes: 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9.
In New Zealand, both "0800" or "0508" prefixes are referred to variously and interchangeably as "free phone" or "toll-free". Originally these "Oh-eight-hundred" numbers were provided by Spark New Zealand and "0508" by rival company Clear (now One New Zealand), although now both numbers can be provided by either company. Some older toll bar ...
United Kingdom numbers in the 0800 range (BT Freefone) first became portable in June 1997. [2] Previously, rival carriers used differing area codes, 0800 for BT Freefone and 0500 for Cable & Wireless Freecall numbers. Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and Belgium also introduced portability schemes in the late 1990s.
One New Zealand (formerly known as Vodafone New Zealand) is a New Zealand telecommunications company. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One NZ is the largest wireless carrier in New Zealand , accounting for 38% of the country's mobile share market in 2021.
New Zealand's telephone numbering plan divides the country into a large number of local calling areas. When dialling, if you wish to call a person in another local calling area, you must dial the trunk prefix followed by the area code. Below is a list of New Zealand local calling areas.
Almost all New Zealand telephone numbers have seven digits, with a single-digit access code and a single-digit area code for long-distance domestic calls. Traditionally, the number was given as (0A) BBB-BBBB, with the two first digits (the STD code) often omitted for local calls. The brackets and the dash are also often omitted.
Telecommunications in New Zealand are fairly typical for an industrialised country. Fixed-line broadband and telephone services were largely provided through copper-based networks, but fibre-based services now represent the majority of connections.
Chorus is a provider of telecommunications infrastructure throughout New Zealand.It is listed on the NZX stock exchange and is in the NZX 50 Index.The company owns the majority of telephone lines and exchange equipment in New Zealand; and was responsible for building approximately 70% of the country's fibre-optic UFB network, receiving a government subsidy of $929 million to do so.