Telephone numbers in India
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Country Code: 91
International Call Prefix: 00
[edit] Fixed (landline) numbers
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) codes are assigned to each city/town/village, with the larger cities having shorter area codes (STD codes), the smallest being 2 digits. For example,
11 - New Delhi, Delhi 22 - Mumbai, Maharastra 33 - Kolkata, West Bengal 44 - Chennai, Tamil Nadu 20 - Pune, Maharashtra 40 - Hyderabad/Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh 80 - Bangalore, Karnataka 0497 - Kannur, Kerala 891 - Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 866 - Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh 863 - Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 141 - Jaipur, Rajasthan 877 - Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh 2832 - Bhuj, Gujarat 79 - Ahmedabad, Gujarat 495 - Calicut, Kerala 712 - Nagpur, Maharastra 731 - Indore, Madhya Pradesh 08490-Pamur,Prakasam district,Andhra Pradesh
A full list of area codes in India is available with BSNL
Landline numbers are at most 8 digits long (usually in major metros). Due to the availability of multiple operators offering fixed line services (either over wire or wireless), there is an operator-code for each telephone number, which is the first digit in the phone number. These are:
2 - BSNL and MTNL 3 - Reliance Infocomm 4 - Bharti Airtel 6 - Tata Indicom
Thus, a number formatted as 020-30303030 means a fixed-line Reliance number in Pune, while 011-20000198 is an MTNL fixed line in Delhi and 033-45229320 is an Airtel number in Kolkata.
No prefix is required to call from one landline to another in the same STD area. A prefix of "0+STD code" is required to dial from a landline phone in one STD code area to another. A prefix of "0+STD code" is required to dial from a mobile phone in India to any landline number, irrespective of STD area.
For example, to call a landline number in Delhi, one would have to dial
- from a land line in Delhi : only the required phone number - from a land line in Mumbai : 011 and then the required phone number - from a mobile phone anywhere in India : 011 and then the required phone number
There are some exceptions to this general rule for STD areas falling close to each other, where "0" is sometimes replaced with "95" e.g. to dial Delhi from Gurgaon, one dials 9511+landline number.
[edit] Cell phone numbers
Refer Mobile telephone numbering in India
[edit] International dialing
The international access code in India is 00. For example, to call 08-790-1000 in Sweden from India, a subscriber would dial:
00 46 8 7901000.
For calls to India from abroad, the appropriate international access code should be dialed, followed by 91 followed by the area code (without the 0) followed by the phone number. For example, to call 011-23456789 in India, from Europe, a subscriber would dial:
00 91 11 23456789
For example, to call a cell phone number (94-23-456789) in India, from Europe, a subscriber would dial:
00 91 94 23 456789
