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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 ...
For special number ranges, formerly ten digits were used, but the initial '0' was dropped. [1] These changes made that nine digits were used for all calls after 1999. [1] Before 1999 Portugal Telecom controlled Portugal's entire landline telephone network. [2]
Saudi Arabian government agencies have reportedly used IMEI numbers retrieved from cell phone packaging to locate and detain women who fled Saudi Arabia's patriarchal society in other countries. [21] An IMEI number retrieved from the remnants of a Nokia 5110 was used to trace and identify the perpetrators behind the 2002 Bali bombings. [22]
In the city of São Paulo, although the area code has two digits, there were still six-digit telephones in use; 3X-nnnn phone numbers (with X=4-7) changed to 60X-nnnn and then to 310X-nnnn, 9X-nnnn phone numbers (with X=2 or 3) changed to 69X-nnnn and then to 669X-nnnn (today 269X-nnnn), and 6n-nnnn phone numbers which were changed directly to ...
As existing numbers began to run out, the three mobile phone operators were assigned numbers in 014 code distinguished by the first digit of the seven-digit subscriber number. With the proliferation of new mobile virtual network operators and the exhaustion of existing codes, two new ranges 011 and 015 are made available for assignment.
Non-geographic toll-free telephone numbers (800, 833, [3] 844, 855, 866, 877, 888) and premium-rate telephone numbers (900) are allocated centrally by the NANP Administrator. Calls to telephone numbers with the central office code 976 are billed as expensive premium calls.