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A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
Telephone numbers in Iceland are seven digits long and generally written in the form xxx xxxx or xxx-xxxx and the E.123 format specifies +354 xxx xxxx from abroad since the country code is +354. There are no area codes in this closed numbering plan and the international call prefix is 00 .
In the United Kingdom, telephone numbers are administered by the Office of Communications . For this purpose, Ofcom established a telephone numbering plan, known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, which is the system for assigning telephone numbers to subscriber stations. Telephone numbers are of variable length.
The telephone number consists of a three-digit central office (or exchange) code and a four-digit station number. The combination of an area code and the telephone number serves as a destination routing address in the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
110 – emergency number mainly in China, Japan, Taiwan; 111 – emergency number in New Zealand; 112 – emergency number across the European Union and on GSM mobile networks across the world; 119 – emergency number in Jamaica and parts of Asia; 122 – emergency number for specific services in several countries
All telephone numbers are 9 digits long (but always prefixed by 0 for calls within South Africa), except for certain Telkom special services. When dialed from another country, the "0" is omitted and replaced with the appropriate international access code and the country code +27.
Telephone numbers in Algeria; Location; Country: Algeria: Continent: Africa: Regulator: Ministry of Post and Telecommunications: Type: Closed: NSN length: 8 (Landline) 9 (Mobile) Format: 0yy xx xx xx (Landline) 0yxx xx xx xx (Mobile) Access codes; Country code +213: International access: 00: Long-distance: 0: List of Algeria dialing codes
Until 1985, subscribers' telephone numbers in Singapore were five and six digits. Five digits were introduced in 1960s, whereas 5-digit and 6-digit phone numbers were introduced in 1960s as fixed lines grew, but in that year, these changed to seven digits as the introduction of new towns arose (Tampines, Jurong East, Bukit Batok, Yishun and Hougang) and a large number of new numbers were required.