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The Ghana telephone numbering plan is the system used for assigning telephone numbers in Ghana. It is regulated by the National Communications Authority, which holds responsibility for telecommunications. Since 1 May 2010, all fixed-line numbers and mobile numbers have 9 national (significant) numbers after the '0' trunk code. [1]
Before 1993, telephone numbers would consist either of a two-digit area code and a six-digit subscriber number in cities and large towns, for example, (02) 412702 in Oslo, [1] or a three-digit area code and a five-digit subscriber number in smaller towns, for example, (034) 83000 in Larvik.
The prefixes in the Americas start with one of 1,2,5. All countries in the Americas use codes that start with "5", with the exception of the countries of the North American Numbering Plan, such as Canada and the United States, which use country code 1, and Greenland and Aruba with country codes starting with the digit "2", which mostly is used by countries in Africa.
A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. [1] [2] [3]Party line systems were widely used to provide telephone service, starting with the first commercial switchboards in 1878. [4]
However, calling between non-local areas always required dialling the area code, even when the called party's code was the same as the caller's. For example, a number from Iași was 981-xx-xxx, then it became 98-1xx-xxx. A number from Suceava was 982-xx-xxx, but then it became 98-2xx-xxx.
The overall structure of the UAE's national numbering plan is: Landline numbers begin with: [1] 01 Al Karama (Canceled); 02 Abu Dhabi; 03 Al Ain; 04 Dubai; 05 mobile number; 06 Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain
An example for calling telephones in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is as follows: 0 33 xxx xxx ... 1185 – Local Telephone Number Directory of Telekom Srpske;
Telephone numbers in Iceland are seven digits long and generally written in the form xxx xxxx or xxx-xxxx and the E.123 format specifies +354 xxx xxxx from abroad since the country code is +354. There are no area codes in this closed numbering plan and the international call prefix is 00 .