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In mainland China, mobile phone numbers have eleven digits in the format 1xx-XXXX-XXXX (except for 140–144, which are 13-digit IoT numbers), in which the first three digits (13x to 19x) designate the mobile phone service provider. Before GSM, mobile phones had 6-digit (later upgraded to 7-digit) numbers starting with nine.
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. 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.
Text phone – 0800 81 12; Non-emergency police – 0900 88 44[ a] or 0343 578 844; [ 66] Non-emergency police (text phone) – 0900 18 44; Suicide prevention – 113; Animal emergency – 144; Child abuse – 0900 123 12 30; [ a] Anti-bullying hotline – 0800 90 50 . North Macedonia. 192 or 112[ b] 194 or 112[ b]
Telephone country code: 86 (see Telephone numbers in China) China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in 1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10 million. Four years later, in 2001, the country had the largest number of mobile phone subscribers in the world.
Numbers starting with '3' were introduced when '2' for fixed lines started running out. Cell phone numbers remain eight-digit. The number '6' started to be used when numbers started with '9' were running out. In May 2008, cellular phone numbers with '5' as the beginning were also introduced.
800-toll-free numbers in China are ten-digit numbers beginning with "800". There is no prefix before "800". 800-toll-free numbers are not accessible to mobile network subscribers and some land-line subscribers. For instance China Tietong Telecom land-line users cannot access 800 numbers.
All telephone numbers in Iran have 11 digits (initial 0 and ten digits). The first two or three digits after the zero are the area code. The possibilities are: (0xx) xxxx xxxx (for landlines), 09xx xxx xxxx (for cellphones) and 099xx xxx xxx (for MVNO ). When making a call within the same landline area code, initial 0 plus the area code must be ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]