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The official toll-free hotline for the California Department of Transportation's Adopt-a-Highway program is 1-866-236-7824, but signs advertise the number as 1-866-ADOPTAHWY, with two extra digits, for memorability. The letters have also been used, mainly in the United States, as a technique for remembering telephone numbers easily.
Landline telephone numbers consist of an area code of 1 to 2 digits (excluding the leading zero), followed by a 6 to 8-digit subscriber number. Mobile phone numbers consist of a mobile phone code of 2 digits followed by a 7- to 8-digit subscriber number.
The total length of all phone numbers (area code and the phone number) is constant at 10 digits. For example, the number 7513200000 signifies the area code 751 (the area code for Gwalior) followed by the phone number. Fixed-line or landline numbers are at most 8 digits long.
Telephone numbers in Ireland are part of an open numbering plan that allows variations in number length. The Irish format is similar to systems used in many parts of Europe, notably the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and France, where geographical numbers are organised using a logic of large regional prefixes, which are then further subdivided into smaller regions.
In 1965, many Israeli phone numbers had six digits, but some had five, according to the Tel Aviv–area phone book. [1] There were ten area codes at that time: 02 Jerusalem, Bet Shemesh; 03 Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Ashdod; 04 Haifa and western Galilee; 051 Ashkelon; 053 Netanya; 057 Beersheva and most of the Negev; 059 Eilat; 065 Afula, Nazareth; 063 Hadera, Zichron Yaakov; and 067 ...
Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix 89: Telenor (Bulgaria) Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix 988: Other mobile networks: Users can now switch carriers and keep their cell phone numbers, including prefix Burkina Faso +226: 70: 8: Telmob: 71: 72: 74 ...
In mainland China, mobile phone numbers have eleven digits in the format 1xx-XXXX-XXXX (except for 140–144, which are 13-digit IoT numbers), in which the first three digits (13x to 19x) designate the mobile phone service provider. Before GSM, mobile phones had 6-digit (later upgraded to 7-digit) numbers starting with nine.
The previous plan removed a lot of area prefixes and added the seventh digit in phone numbers (usually a phone number (0cc) yx xx xx became (0dd) zzx xx xx). 023 – Short prefix for some French regions; 025 – Chablais, since 2 November 1996 in 024; 026 – Martigny, since 2 November 1996 in 027; 028 – high Valais, since 2 November 1996 in 027