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The most commonly used EAN standard is the thirteen-digit EAN-13, a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC-A) standard developed in 1970 by George J. Laurer. [1] An EAN-13 number includes a 3-digit GS1 prefix (indicating country of registration or special type of product). A prefix with a first digit of "0" indicates a 12 ...
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 symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, [1] hash, [2] or pound sign. [3] The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔.
7 (fixed or mobile), 8 (mobile) fixed 00 – Finland: 358 5 to 12 variable 00 0 France: 33 9 fixed with 0 00 0 Germany: 49 3 to 12 variable 00 0 Greece: 30 4 to 5 (company numbers) 10 (fixed and mobile) fixed 00 – Hungary: 36 8 (landline) or 9 (mobile) variable 00 06 Iceland: 354 7 (mobile and landline) or 9 (for 3xxxxxxxx) fixed 00 ...
Dialing from New York to Brussels 011-32-2-555-12-12 - Omitting the leading "0". Dialing from New York to Charleroi 011-32-71-123-456 - The subscriber number shortens with the addition of a number to the area code. Dialing from New York to a mobile number 011-32-4xx-12-34-56 - The dialer omits the leading "0".
This rounded the total number of digits in a subscriber telephone number to ten: a three-digit area code, three-digit central office code, and four digits for each line. This fixed format defined the North American Numbering Plan as a closed numbering plan , [ 25 ] as opposed to developments in other countries where the number of digits was not ...
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.
A mobile phone keypad with Latin and Japanese characters. In the course of telephone history, dials as well as keypads have been associated with various mappings of letters and characters to numbers. The system used in Denmark [failed verification] was different from that used in the UK, which, in turn, was different from the US and Australia. [9]