Telephone numbers in Oceania
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[edit] Australia
Country Code: 61
International Call Prefix: 0011
Telephone numbers in Australia consist of a single-digit area code (prefixed with a '0' when dialling within Australia) and eight-digit local numbers, the first four, five or six of which specify the exchange, and the remaining four, three or two a line at that exchange. (Most exchanges though have several exchange codes.) Within Australia, the area code is only required to call from one area code to another.
Australia is divided geographically into a small number of large area codes, some of which cover more than one state and territory. Prior to the introduction of eight-digit numbers in the early to mid-1990s, telephone numbers were seven digits in the major capital cities, with a single-digit area code, and six digits in other areas with a two-digit area code. There were more than sixty such codes by 1990, with numbers running out, thus spurring the reorganisation.
Following reorganisation of the numbering plan between 1996 and 1998, the following numbering ranges are now used:
| 1 | Domestic number nation-wide, e.g. 1800, 1900, 1300, data services |
| 02 | New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory |
| 03 | Victoria and Tasmania |
| 04 | Mobile phone services (National numbers) |
| 05 | "Follow me" services (National numbers) |
| 07 | Queensland |
| 08 | Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia (including Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands). |
National numbers have no geographic significance. Other numbers relate to a particular telephone service area.
However, allowances are made for regional variations; sometimes the codes do not strictly follow state borders. For example, Broken Hill in New South Wales uses the 08 area code, due to its closer proximity to Adelaide than the state capital Sydney, and the Broken Hill area's inclusion in the Australian Central Standard Time zone. The previous area code for Broken Hill was (080). Other examples include towns in Southern New South Wales close to the border with Victoria that use the 03 (Victoria and Tasmania) prefix, including: Hay, Balranald, Wentworth and Deniliquin). Also towns on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales have an area code of 07 followed by a subscriber number of 55xx xxxx. Meaning it is the cost of a local call to phone the Gold Coast in neighbouring Queensland Since the metropolis covers both sides of the NSW/Qld border.
[edit] East Timor
Country Code: 670
Until September 1999, East Timor formed part of the Indonesian numbering plan, using the Country Code +62, followed by area codes for the two largest cities, Dili (390) and Baucau (399). Following the violence in the wake of Indonesia's departure from the territory, most of the telecommunications infrastructure was destroyed, and Telkom Indonesia withdrew its services from East Timor.
A new country code +670 was allocated to East Timor, but international access often remains severely limited. A complicating factor is the fact that 670 was previously used by the Northern Marianas, with many carriers not aware that the code is now used by East Timor. (The Northern Marianas, now part of the North American Numbering Plan, use the code 1 and the area code 670.)
East Timor now has a closed numbering plan; all subscribers' numbers are seven digits.
Telephone numbering in East Timor is as follows:
Mobile: 72X-YYYY Service Numbers: 721-XXXX Fixed: 32X-YYYY (numbering range in Dili) Government Departments: 333-YYYY Ambulance Service: 110 Fire Dept: 115 Emergency: 112 International access code: 00
[edit] New Zealand
Country Code: 64
Since 1993, land-line telephone numbers in New Zealand consist of a single-digit area code and seven-digit local numbers, the first three of which generally specify the exchange and the final four a line at that exchange. The long distance prefix is '0'.
There are five regional area codes, which must be used when calling outside the local dialling area. So for the entire South Island including Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedin, the '03' prefix must be dialled first. In many parts of the country, the old area code was incorporated into the new number, hence Nelson (054) xx xxx became (03) 54x xxxx . Or New Plymouth (067) became (06) 75x xxxx - old numbers mostly 5 digit, or 1 series of 6 digit at the Spotswood Exchange of 51x xxx.
| 024099 | Scott Base in the Ross Dependency |
| 03 | South Island and the Chatham Islands |
| 04 | Wellington Region except the Wairarapa and Otaki |
| 06 | Remaining southern and eastern North Island:
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| 07 | Waikato, the Bay of Plenty and Taumarunui |
| 09 | Auckland and Northland |
Mobile phone numbers are prefixed with 02, followed by one digit and the subscriber's number, which is either six, seven or eight digits, dialled in full, e.g. 025 xxx xxx or 027 xxx xxxx. Number portability has now been introduced in New Zealand but the following table shows the mobile numbering ranges originally assigned to the various mobile carriers:
| 020 | Orcon |
| 021 | Vodafone |
| 024 | Ihug/Vodafone |
| 025 | Telecom TDMA |
| 027 | Telecom CDMA |
| 028 | CallPlus |
| 029 | Vodafone/TelstraClear |
Free call services generally use the prefix 0800 (although some use 0508) while local rate (usually internet access numbers) have the prefix 08xx. Premium rate services use the code 0900 followed by five digits.
The main international prefix is '00' (there are others for special purposes, such as 0161, for discounted rates). The emergency services number is '111'.
[edit] Papua New Guinea
Country Code: 675
Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea consist of a seven digit national number, which is used for fixed, mobile and special rate services. There are no access codes for trunk services.
The international access code is '00'.
Broadly numbers are allocated to the following categories:
0xx(x) = operator services
180 xxxx = free call services
188 xxxx = local call services
2xx xxxx = satellite telephones
3xx xxxx = Port Moresby/Papua Region
4xx xxxx = Lae/Morobe region
5xx xxxx = Mount Hagen/Highlands region
6xx xxxx = Daru/Fly region
69x xxxx = AMPS mobile (no longer in use)
68x xxxx = Mobile GSM
7xx xxxx = Goroka/Eastern Highlands region
8xx xxxx = Madang/Sepik region
9xx xxxx = New Guinea Islands region
[edit] United States Territories
The following Territories of the United States are part of the North American Numbering Plan, and no longer have their own country codes:
- Area code 684 - American Samoa from 2 October 2004
- Area code 671 - Guam from 1 July 1998
- Area code 670 - Northern Mariana Islands from 1 July 1998
[edit] Other Countries in Oceania
The following countries in Oceania have a country calling code allocated, but do not have an article on telephone numbers at present:
- +672 – Australian external territories such as Norfolk Island and Australian Antarctic Territory; (but not Christmas Island and Cocos Islands)
- +674 – Nauru
- +676 – Tonga
- +677 – Solomon Islands
- +678 – Vanuatu
- +679 – Fiji
- +680 – Palau
- +681 – Wallis and Futuna
- +682 – Cook Islands
- +683 – Niue Island
- +685 – Samoa (Western Samoa)
- +686 – Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)
- +687 – New Caledonia
- +688 – Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)
- +689 – French Polynesia
- +690 – Tokelau
- +691 – Federated States of Micronesia
- +692 – Marshall Islands
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