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Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing ( ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
In many countries, dialing either 112 (used in Europe and parts of Asia) or 911 (used mostly in the Americas) will connect callers to the local emergency services. But not all countries use those emergency telephone numbers. The emergency numbers in the world (but not necessarily all of them) are listed below.
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, only the symbol + before the country code may be used [citation needed] irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the ...
ISO 3166-1 ( Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes) is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It is the first part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization .
The Philippines is assigned an international dialing code of +63 by ITU-T. Telephone numbers are fixed at eight digits for area code 02, and seven digits for area codes from 03X to 09X, with area codes fixed at one, two, or three digits (a six-digit system was used until the mid-1990s; four to five digits were used in the countryside). Mobile phone numbers are always 10 digits (three digits ...
The mobile country code consists of three decimal digits and the mobile network code consists of two or three decimal digits (for example: MNC of 001 is not the same as MNC of 01). The first digit of the mobile country code identifies the geographic region as follows (the digits 1 and 8 are not used): 0: Test networks. 2: Europe.
^ The number of digits that allow to uniquely identify a number within the country. It excludes the country code and any trunk code or access code. It includes the mobile prefix towards the total number of digits.
When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. “Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia ...