Telephone numbers in Sweden

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Country Code: 46
International Call Prefix: 00

In Sweden, the area codes are — excluding the leading '0' — one, two or three digits long, with larger towns and cities having shorter area codes permitting a larger number of telephone numbers in the eight to ten digits used. Before the 1990s, ten-digit numbers were very rare, but they have become increasingly common because of the deregulation of telecommunications, the new 112 emergency number, which required change of all numbers starting with 11, and the creation of a single area code for the Greater Stockholm area. No subscriber number is shorter than five digits.

010 and 011:    Geographically Independent Numbers / VOIP services
01x(x): South Middle Sweden 018
020:    toll free
0200:   toll free
02x(x): North Middle Sweden
03x(x): Central South Sweden
031:    Gothenburg
040:    Malmö
04x(x): Southern Sweden
05x(x): Western Sweden
06x(x): Northern Sweden
070:    GSM mobile phones
071:    Premium rate calls
073:    GSM mobile phones
0730:   GSM mobile phones
074(x): Pagers
076:    GSM mobile phones
07x(x): various non-geographical area codes
08:     Greater Stockholm
09x(x): Far Northern Sweden and premium rate calls
112:    emergency services number

Sweden adopted 00 as its international access code in 1999, replacing 009 and 007.

According to the postal and telecommunication services supervising authority Post- och Telestyrelsen, it seems possible that Sweden will adopt a closed numbering plan in the future.