Talk:Argentine telephone numbering plan

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This is the most complicated phone numbering system I´ve seen up to now... :)

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[edit] anyone feel like summarising this

and putting said summary in the telephone numbering plan article. I'm seriously having trouble getting my head arround it to sumarise. Plugwash 20:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Try the UK one, that's even harder. :) Sebastian Kessel Talk 20:47, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
No UK is easy. virtually every number is the same length when dialed in full regardless of its type and there is a 0 that you use when dialing domestically but not when dialing in internationally. The rest of the article is just info on what area codes are used for what and the systems history. Plugwash 23:59, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] international dialing prefix

this article implies in a couple of places that the international dialing prefix from argentina is 00 but doesn't explicitly state it. can anyone confirm?

It is '00'. :) Sebastian Kessel Talk 20:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cell phones

[edit] Number length

Cell phones in Argentina always start with number 15. For instance if a user wanted to call a Buenos Aires cell phone, from within Buenos Aires, he/she would have to dial:

  • 15 xxxx-xxxx

Should the user want to call a cell phone in another province, he/she would have to add the local prefix, e.g.:

  • 0351 15 xxx-xxxx if it is a Córdoba cell phone

whats with the differing number of x in those lines?! Plugwash 23:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

A mistake. Sebastian Kessel Talk 22:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

The idea is that adding the area code length plus the user number length (excluding the 0 and 15) you always get ten digits. So Buenos Aires area code is 11 (2 digits) so the user number length is 8 digits, while Córdoba area code is 351 so the user number length is 7 digits. Alpertron 21:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

That's not true, all phone #s in Argentina (even cells) had the "4" added to them. Bs. As. cellphones, then got an 8 digit number (same as landlines). Sebastian Kessel Talk 22:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 15

more explanation is needed on the ommision of the 15. do mobile numbers not colide with landline numbers even if the 15 is left out? does it decide what type of number it is based on length? Plugwash 23:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Cell numbers are assigned equally as land numbers. They do not collide. But cells require the "15" prefix so users can indentify CPP (Calling Party Pays) phones. Non CPP (like US) phones are available, but few users choose them since that would mean they have to pay for their incoming calls as well as the outgoing. Sebastian Kessel Talk 22:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed?

"The peculiarity of the system is that for calling from abroad you need to dial completely different numbers. It's not just, "take the number and add the country code". Some numbers in the middle need to be left out and you need to add something behind the country code, depending on whether it's a fixed or mobile number." Please rewrite instead of remove... Guaka

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