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  2. Telephone numbers in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Country code. +971. International access. 00. Long-distance. 0. Telephone numbers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) follow a closed telephone numbering plan. The UAE is assigned an international dialing code of +971 by ITU. Telephone numbers are fixed at seven digits, with area codes fixed at two or three digits.

  3. Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    NSN is the number of digits after the leading 0 trunk code or +44 international prefix. The 0800 range can have NSN length as 10, 9, or 7 digits. The 0845 range can have NSN length as 10 or 7 digits. The 0500 range had NSN length as 9 digits only, and was withdrawn from use on 3 June 2017.

  4. 911 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    History. The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.

  5. Maxis Communications - Wikipedia

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    Maxis Berhad ( doing business as Maxis, formerly known as Maxis Communications) is a communications service provider in Malaysia. It is one of the oldest and largest telecommunications companies in the country. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it provides a variety of communication products, applications and value added services for ...

  6. Landline - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved 12 October 2019. A landline ( land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire ...

  7. Telephone numbers in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is assigned an international dialing code of +63 by ITU-T. Telephone numbers are fixed at eight digits for area code 02, and seven digits for area codes from 03X to 09X, with area codes fixed at one, two, or three digits (a six-digit system was used until the mid-1990s; four to five digits were used in the countryside).

  8. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Belgian telephone numbers consist of three parts: First '0', secondly the "zone prefix" ( A) which has one or two digits for landlines and three digits for mobile phones, and thirdly the "subscriber's number" ( B ). Land lines always have nine digits. They are prefixed by a zero, followed by the zone prefix.

  9. Local number portability - Wikipedia

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    Local number portability. Local number portability ( LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability ( FMNP) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number to another carrier ("service provider ...