Telephone numbers in Italy
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Country Code: 39
International Call Prefix: 00
Italy changed to a closed numbering plan in 1998. The plan which had originally been advertised in early 1998 was to merge the trunk code '0' into subscribers' landline numbers effective June 19, 1998, and then to replace that leading '0' with a '4' starting from December 29, 2000. As a result of this change, all landline numbers would begin with a '4', and mobile phone numbers with a '3'. Other initial digits had been reserved for different special purposes. In practice, the switch was not completed as originally announced, and landline numbers still begin with a '0', unlike in the closed numbering plans of other countries. E.g. a number in Rome:
06 xxxx xxxx (within Rome - after 1999) 06 xxxx xxxx (within Italy) +39 06 xxxx xxxx (outside Italy - after 1998)
Calls to mobile phone numbers within Italy were also affected, deleting the previously used trunk code '0'. International calls to Italian mobile phone numbers were not affected. E.g. for former Omnitel, now Vodafone provider in Italy:
0347 xxx xxxx (within Italy - before 1999) 347 xxx xxxx (within Italy - after 1999) +39 347 xxx xxxx (outside Italy - both before and after 1999)
Landline numbers are generally 9 or 10 digits long. Mobile numbers are always 10 digits long, with the only exceptions of very old TIM numbers, which are 9 digits long (though those are extremely rare).
Until 1996, San Marino was part of the Italian numbering plan, using the Italian area code 0549 but in that year it adopted its own international code 378. However, instead of using international dialing codes, dialing arrangements between San Marino and Italy continued as before. In 1998, San Marino incorporated the 0549 area code into its subscribers' numbers, following the Italian format:
0549 xxx xxx (San Marino from Italy) +378 0549 xxx xxx (San Marino from rest of the world) +39 0549 xxx xxx (San Marino via Italy)
Mobile phone number in Italy: without a zero, started with a 3.
3xx xxx xxx (within Italy and San Marino) +39 3xx xxx xxx (from the rest of the world)
This is the actual national telephone numbers plan (Delibera no. 9/03/CIR of 3 July 2003 Piano di numerazione nel settore delle telecomunicazioni e disciplina attuativa):
00- international access code (+) 00800- toll free (international) 0- geographical (local and national) phone numbers 010- Genoa 011- Turin 0131- Alessandria 015- Biella 0165- Aosta 0187- La Spezia 019- Savona 02- Milan 030- Brescia 031- Como 0321- Novara 035- Bergamo 0369- Mediaset Cologno Monzese and Segrate TV studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.) 0376- Mantua 039- Monza 040- Trieste 041- Venice 0425- Rovigo 0432- Udine 045- Verona 0461- Trento 0471- Bolzano 049- Padova 050- Pisa 051- Bologna 0532- Ferrara 0541- Rimini 0549- San Marino (Republic of San Marino) 055- Florence 0577- Siena 0586- Livorno 059- Modena 06- Rome 070- Cagliari 071- Ancona 075- Perugia 0769- RAI Saxa Rubra Studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.) 079- Sassari 080- Bari 081- Naples 0823- Caserta 0824- Benevento 0825- Avellino northern part 0827- Avellino southern part 0828- Salerno southern part 085- Pescara 0878- mass calls phone number (polls, television programs, etc.), max. 0,66€+0,23€/min 089- Salerno northern 090- Messina 091- Palermo 095- Catania 0974- Salerno southern part 099- Taranto 1- Service and emergency numbers 112 general emergency, police (Carabinieri) 113 police (Polizia) 115 fire (Vigili del Fuoco) 117 Italian Customs/Financial/Border Police Guardia di Finanza 118 ambulance 12xx telephone number services 144- premium rate, max. 0,07€+1,31€/min 15xx other emergency and information services 1515 fire, forest and environemental emergency (Corpo Forestale dello Stato) 1518 road information service (CCISS) 1530 on sea emergency and assistance, "blue" number (Capitaneria di Porto) 166- premium rate, max. 0,07€+1,31€/min 178- personal number, max. 0,15€+0,35€/min 18- client services 19- client services 199- personal number, max. 0,12€+0,26€/min 2- reserved for future purposes 3xx- mobile and personal phones 4- internal phone net service numbers 5- reserved for future purposes 6- reserved for future purposes 70x- internet access numbers 7xx- internet service numbers 8- special rate numbers 80x- toll free (within Italy) 84x- shared rate (information services), max. 0,10€+local rate/min 89x- premium rate (informational and adult services) 892- premium rate, max. 0,30€+1,50€/min 9- reserved for future purposes
It is to be noted that this numbering plan doesn't strictly follow the boundaries of the provinces and city areas in order to solve in a simple way some technical constraints. So, for example, the geographycal province of Avellino has two main prefixes (0825 and 0827) but also some commons with other prefixes like 0824 for San Martino Valle Caudina and 081 as for Baiano.
