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Rank Country/region Number of telephone lines Date of information — Worldwide 931,000,000: 2019: 1 China 183,477,000: 2018/11: 2 United States 114,000,000: 2011 est. 3 Germany ...
Retrieved 12 October 2019. A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire ...
Telecommunications company. ITU-T. Landline. List of mobile network operators. List of mobile network operators of the Americas. List of mobile network operators in Asia and Oceania. List of mobile network operators in Europe. List of mobile network operators in the Middle East and Africa. List of mobile network operators in Canada.
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for public telephony. The PSTN consists of telephone lines, fiber-optic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks ...
In December 2011, Argentine authorities postponed number portability once again—allegedly due to lobbying from operators—until March 2012. [6] The intention is that users of landline and mobile telephones in Argentina will be able to switch providers while keeping their phone number, so long as they remain in the same subscriber local area.
Users of these networks make international calls by dialling the country code together with the destination phone number. It can be made through a call-forwarding service that allows mobile phone users to associate an international phone number with a landline number within the United Kingdom .
Landline telephone numbers have area codes, whereas mobile numbers do not. In major cities, landline numbers consist of a two-digit area code followed by an eight-digit local number. In other places, landline numbers consist of a three-digit area code followed by a seven- or eight-digit local number. Mobile phone numbers consist of eleven digits.
Telephone numbers in the Americas. The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with ...