Country Code: +39
International Call Prefix: 00
Trunk Prefix: Leading 0 is dialled both within and from outside Italy
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Telephone numbers in Italy changed to a closed telephone 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. It was later decided that landline numbers should still begin with a '0', unlike in the closed numbering plans of many other countries. E.g. a land line 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 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 (area code+exchange+number) are generally 9 or 10 digits long, although they can be as little as 6 or as many as 11 digits. Mobile numbers are always 10 digits long, with the only exception of very old TIM numbers, which are 9 digits long (though those are now extremely rare).
Mobile phone number in Italy: without a zero, started with a 3.
3xx xxx xxxx (within Italy and San Marino)
+39 3xx xxx xxxx (from the rest of the world)
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 country 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)
Similarly, Vatican City is assigned country code 379. However, Vatican City is still reached via the Italian numbering plan. Telephone numbers in the Vatican City are similar to telephone numbers in Rome, with "698" following the "06" for Rome.
06 698x xxxx (Vatican City from Italy)
+379 698x xxxx (Vatican City from rest of the world)
00- international access code (+) 00800- toll free (international) 0- geographical (local and national) phone numbers 010- Genoa 011- Turin 0122- Sestrieres, Bardonecchia and other Susa Valley mountain resorts 0125- Ivrea 0131- Alessandria 0141- Asti 015- Biella 0161- Vercelli 0165- Aosta, Courmayeur 0166- Cervinia 0171- Cuneo 0185- Rapallo, Chiavari 0187- La Spezia and Cinque Terre 019- Savona 02- Milan 030- Brescia 031- Como 0321- Novara 0331- Busto Arsizio 0341- Lecco 0342- Sondrio 035- Bergamo 0362 Seregno 0369- Mediaset Cologno Monzese and Segrate TV studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.) 0376- Mantua 0382- Pavia 039- Monza 040- Trieste 041- Venice 0425- Rovigo 0432- Udine 0434- Pordenone 0444- Vicenza 045- Verona 0461- Trento 0471- Bolzano 0481- Gorizia 049- Padua 050- Pisa 051- Bologna 0521- Parma 0522- Reggio nell'Emilia 0523- Piacenza 0532- Ferrara 0536- Sassuolo 0541- Rimini 0549- San Marino (Most Serene Republic of San Marino) 055- Florence 0571- Empoli 0572- Montecatini Terme 0573- Pistoia 0574- Prato 0575- Arezzo 0577- Siena 0583- Lucca 0584- Viareggio 0586- Livorno 0587- Pontedera 0588- Piombino 059- Modena 06- Rome (including State of Vatican City) 070- Cagliari 071- Ancona 0721- Province of Pesaro and Urbino 0722- Province of Pesaro and Urbino 0733- Macerata 075- Perugia 0769- RAI Saxa Rubra Studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.) 0771- Fondi 0773- Latina 0775- Frosinone 0789- Olbia and Costa Smeralda 079- Sassari 080- Bari 081- Naples 0823- Caserta 0824- Benevento 0825- Avellino 085- Pescara 0865- Isernia 0871- Chieti 0872- Lanciano 0873- Vasto 0874- Campobasso 0875- Termoli 0881- Foggia 089- Salerno 090- Messina 091- Palermo 0922- Agrigento 095- Catania 0961- Catanzaro 0965- Reggio di Calabria 0971- Potenza 099- Taranto
0878- mass calls phone number (polls, television programs, etc.), max. 0.66€+0.23€/min
1- Service and emergency numbers 112 General emergency, gendarmerie (Carabinieri) 113 General emergency, police (Polizia di Stato) 115 Fire and rescue service (Vigili del Fuoco) 117 Italian Customs/Financial/Border Police Guardia di Finanza 118 Ambulance and first aid service(Italian Red Cross included) 12xx Premium rate services 144- Premium rate services, 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 Search and rescue on sea (Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard) 166- Premium rate services, max. 0.07€+1.31€/min 178- Premium rate services, max. 0.15€+0.35€/min 18- Customer care services 19- Customer care services 199- Premium rate services, max. 0.12€+0.26€/min
2- Reserved for future purposes
3- mobile phones 313- Rete_Ferroviaria_Italiana ( GSMR and internal service number, personal ones accessible even from public network) 32x- Wind mobile phones customers 33x- TIM mobile phones customers 34x- Vodafone Italy mobile phones customers 35x- future full-MVNO mobile phones customers 36x- TIM mobile phones customers 37x- various ESP/MVNO mobile phones customers 38x- Wind mobile phones customers 39x- H3G Italy mobile phones customers 4- internal phone net service numbers 5- Voip numbers (implemented and accessible only by few operators) 6- reserved for future purposes 7xx- internet service numbers 70x- dial-up internet access numbers 8- special rate numbers 80x- toll free number (within Italy) 84x- shared rate (information services), max. 0.10€+local rate/min 89x- Premium rate services (information and adult services) 892- Premium rate services, 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 geographical province of Avellino has two main prefixes (0825 and 0827) but also some common land with other prefixes like 0824 for San Martino Valle Caudina and 081 as for Baiano.