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From that year, calls were made in the standard international format, i.e. 00 44, and the 03 range was withdrawn from use. Calls to Northern Ireland are now made by dialling 048 and the eight-digit local number, omitting the 028 STD code. This ensures calls are charged at lower rates. Alternatively, the full international code +44 28 can be used.
This is the oldest geographic number format and is used for twelve smaller towns and villages where the subscriber number is either five or (in one area code) four digits long. These are known as 5+5 and 5+4 format. Therefore, the STD code and the subscriber number does not always total ten digits after the initial zero trunk code.
There is an international format for recording a telephone number containing the country code, settlement code and telephone number, and the national format containing the settlement code and telephone number. To record Ukrainian telephone numbers, telephone codes for settlements do not have an initial zero, long-distance prefix: 0.
Original STD code and number format Exchange Local dialling from Newton Abbot Modern area code and number format (036 42) xxx: Widecombe-in-the-Moor 912 xxx (01364) 621xxx (036 43) xxx: Poundsgate 913 xxx (01364) 631xxx (036 44) xxxx: Buckfastleigh 914 xxxx (01364) 64xxxx (036 45) xxxx: Ashburton 915 xxxx (01364) 65xxxx (036 46) xxx: Haytor 916 xxx
For numbers without DID access, the internal switch relays externally originated calls via an operator, an automated attendant or an electronic interactive voice response system. Telephone numbers for users within such systems are often published by suffixing the official telephone number with the extension number, e.g., 1 800 555-0001 x2055.
E.164 defines a general format for international telephone numbers. Plan-conforming telephone numbers are limited to only digits and to a maximum of fifteen digits. [ 1 ] The specification divides the digit string into a country code of one to three digits, and the subscriber telephone number of a maximum of twelve digits.
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This format is the result of mobile carriers advertising numbers in such a way so as to clearly identify the owning telco prior to mobile number portability, introduced on 25 September 2001. Prior to MNP, mobile operators generally reserved number ranges in blocks of 04 xy z .