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There are national telephone services which have phone numbers in the format of 1XX or 1XXX, without any area code. For example, 114 is for telephone yellow page, 119 is for fire/emergency number, 112 is for police station center, 131 is for weather forecast information, 1333 is for traffic information, and so on.
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.
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 ...
An emergency phone on the Welsh coast at Trefor featuring 999. (Note the keypad missing digits 4 - 0, with no instruction on how to dial 999 from this phone.) 999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112.
For most countries, this is followed by an area code, city code or service number code and the subscriber number, which might consist of the code for a particular telephone exchange. ITU-T recommendation E.123 describes how to represent an international telephone number in writing or print, starting with a plus sign ("+") and the country code.
In NANP telephone number specifications, the letter N represents a numeral from 2 through 9, while the letter X represents any numeral. Thus, NXX is a number from 200 through 999, while XXXX is a range from 0000 through 9999. The first three digits of a telephone number are the numbering plan area code (NPA code, or simply NPA).
The current dialling plan is in force since 4 June 2011 when a wide-ranging reform took place. Specifically, area codes were updated to start with 2 or 3, mobile numbers came to begin with the digit 5, and some geographical numbers were padded with an additional digit 2 or 3 immediately after the area code to the total number of digits equalling 9.
Emergency Numbers. The following numbers are used for emergency services within the Oman: 9999 - Police (Emergency) 999 - Civil Defence/Fire. 199 - Marine & Coastal. 1442 - Water Emergency. 80070008 - Electricity Emergency (Muscat) 80077222 - Municipality