Telephone numbers in Oceania

=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: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'.

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

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

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 - part of the Australian numbering system)
*+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

ee also

*Telephone numbering plan
*List of country calling codes