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Before 1994, all phone numbers in Costa Rica were six digits long. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, which at that time had the monopoly on telecommunications, introduced a system in which the telephone numbers in every province were assigned a prefix to make them 7 digits long. This numbering system was effective for some time.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Telephone country codes, originally termed International Codes by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (C.C.I.T.T.) in 1960, [1] but also sometimes referred to as "country dial-in codes", or historically "international subscriber dialing" (ISD) codes in the U.K., are telephone ...
For example, for a number in Costa Rica they would write (506) 2222-2222 instead of +506 2222-2222. On the other hand, Guatemala does have the custom of using the + sign. It is quite common for Central American businesses to write the whole phone number, including the country code in parentheses, on business cards, signs, stationery, etc.
The number pool of the area code was divided between the regions by the national number, which was from two to four digits long, leaving five to three digits, respectively, of the total of 10 digits of a complete telephone number for local telephone number assignments. The national number appeared in local telephone directories.
01 + area code + phone number 10 02 Domestic operator dialing 02 + area code + phone number 10 09 International operator dialing 09 + country code + area code + phone number - 044 Local cell phone from a land line 044 + area code + phone number 10 - Cell phone from a cell phone area code + phone number 10 045 Domestic cell phone from a land line
This rounded the total number of digits in a subscriber telephone number to ten: a three-digit area code, a three-digit central office code, and four digits for each line. This fixed format defined the North American Numbering Plan as a closed numbering plan , [ 27 ] as opposed to developments in other countries where the number of digits was ...
Federal Entity Area codes Aguascalientes 449, 458, 465, 495, 496 Baja California 616, 646, 653, 658, 661, 663, 664, 665, 686 Baja California Sur
El Tejar district location in Costa Rica Coordinates: 9°50′38″N 83°57′05″W / 9.8438293°N 83.9513588°W / 9.8438293; -83.9513588 Country