Telephone numbers in Colombia

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Colombia has various telephone dial plans, depending on the type of service.

Contents 1 Landline service 1.1 Local 1.2 Domestic long-distance 1.3 International dialing 2 Mobile service 2.1 Calls to a mobile phone 2.2 Calls from a mobile phone 3 Toll-free service 4 Other services 4.1 Toll-based service 4.2 Dial-up Internet service billed per minute 4.3 Emergency numbers (Colombian National Police)

[edit] Landline service

[edit] Local

Local numbers follow the pattern:

• NXX-XXXX

Where N is a range from 2-8. Numbers where N is 9 are reserved for pay phones.

[edit] Domestic long-distance

Domestic long-distance numbers follow the pattern:

• 0AB-NXX-XXXX

Where A represents one of the three national long-distance carriers:

• 5 Orbitel
• 7 ETB
• 9 Telefónica

And B represents the dialing zone where the call originates. Each department belongs to only one dialing zone:

• 1 Bogotá and Cundinamarca
• 2 Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño
• 4 Antioquia, Chocó and Córdoba
• 5 Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena and Sucre
• 6 Caldas, Risaralda and Quindío
• 7 Santander, Norte de Santander and Arauca
• 8 Boyacá, Tolima, Huila, San Andrés, Meta, Caquetá and the Amazon and Orinoco departments (Casanare, Vichada, Guainía, Vaupés, Guaviare, Amazonas and Putumayo)

[edit] International dialing

To dial internationally from Colombia, subscribers dial using the pattern:

• 00A-XX...

Where A represents the long-distance carrier, as described above.

[edit] Mobile service

[edit] Calls to a mobile phone

Mobile phone numbers follow the pattern:

• MMM-XXX-XXXX when calling from any mobile phone
• 03-MMM-XXX-XXXX when calling from any landline phone
• 57-MMM-XXX-XXXX when calling from outside Colombia

Where MMM represents the access code for one of the country's three mobile phone operators:

• 300, 301, 302, 304 Tigo
• 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, Comcel
• 315, 316, 317 Movistar

[edit] Calls from a mobile phone

Calls from a mobile phone to a domestic landline phone follow the pattern:

• 03B-NXX-XXXX

Where B corresponds to the dialing zone of the receiving phone.

To dial internationally from a mobile phone, the procedure is identical to calling from a landline phone.

[edit] Toll-free service

Toll-free numbers follow the pattern:

• 01-800-XXX-XXXX

Before 2002, the format was 9800-XXXXXX. When the current format was adopted in that year, existing toll-free numbers were given the format 01-800-0XX-XXXX. These numbers were advertised with the grouping 01-8000-XXX-XXX, leading many people to erroneously believe that the general prefix for toll-free numbers is 01-8000.

[edit] Other services

[edit] Toll-based service

• 01-900-XXX-XXXX
• 01-901-XXX-XXXX

[edit] Dial-up Internet service billed per minute

• 01-947-XXX-XXXX
• 01-948-XXX-XXXX

[edit] Emergency numbers (Colombian National Police)

• 1-1-2, called linea ciento doce (hundred and twelve line)
• In the cities of Bogota and Medellin, dial 1-2-3, for police, fire department and general emergencies