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Mobile phones use geographic area codes (two digits): after that, all numbers assigned to mobile service have nine digits, starting with 6, 7, 8 or 9 (example: 55 15 99999–9999). 90 is not possible, because collect calls start with this number.
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.
From 1 June 1999, the new 020 code for London was introduced to replace the 0171 and 0181 codes, re-unifying the London telephone area under one code as it had been under the 01 area code. All the previous seven-digit numbers had a 7 or 8 prefixed to them: (0171) xxx xxxx became (020) 7xxx xxxx (0181) xxx xxxx became (020) 8xxx xxxx
0881 (0,4,8) later used for PageOne pager numbers; changed from 0881 to 076 81 on 28 April 2001 0881 (1-3,5-7,9) later used for Mercury Premium rate numbers; changed from 0881 to 09xx on 28 April 2001. 01882 — Kinloch Rannoch, Tummel Bridge (TU2) 01883 — Caterham, Oxted – – Was originally 0093 (OX3) until changed to 0883 in 1968
7-1-1; 8-1-1; 9-8-8; 102 (ambulance service) 105 (telephone number) 106 (emergency telephone number) 108 (emergency telephone number) 111 (emergency telephone number) 112 (emergency telephone number) 119 (COVID-19 testing) 119 (emergency telephone number) 211 (telephone number) 311 (telephone number) 411 (telephone number) 911 (emergency ...
On 1 October 2019, Ofcom capped the termination rate (also known as the wholesale rate) for Personal Numbers starting 070 to be the same as the rate for calls to mobile numbers (at the time, less than 0.5p per minute) starting 071 to 075 and 077 to 079 [141] to eliminate Wangiri and other scams on this number range, and reduce bill-shock ...
This was accomplished by adding the digit "9" to the beginning of any phone number that started with a "9" (government and semi-government connections), and adding the digit "3" to any phone numbers that did not start with the number "9". [1] It is common to write phone numbers as (0xx) yyyyyyy, where xx is the area code.
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, the symbol + before the country code may be used irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the network operator ...