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Mobile phones. Within Australia, mobile phone numbers begin with 04 or 05 – the Australian national trunk code 0, plus the mobile indicator 4 or 5 – followed by eight digits. This is generally written as 04XX XXX XXX within Australia, or as +61 4XX XXX XXX for an international audience.
The final codes changed to eight digits were the Queensland (070), (071), (076), (077) and (079) codes, which all changed to (07) 4yxx xxxx on 10 November 1997. In almost all cases, the former area code was incorporated into the new subscriber number: Canberra numbers went from (06) 2xx xxxx to (02) 62xx xxxx, numbers in the Northern Territory ...
The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia. [2] The states are partially sovereign, administrative divisions that are self-governing polities, having ceded some sovereign rights to the federal government. [3] They have their own constitutions, legislatures, executive governments, judiciaries and law enforcement ...
Worldwide distribution of country calling codes. Regions are coloured by first digit. Country calling codes, country dial-in codes, international subscriber dialing (ISD) codes, or most commonly, telephone country codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in foreign countries or areas via international telecommunication networks.
106 – emergency number in Australia for textphone/TTY; 108 – emergency number in India (22 states) 110 – emergency number mainly in China, Japan, Taiwan; 111 – emergency number in New Zealand; 112 – emergency number across the European Union and on GSM mobile networks across the world; 119 – emergency number in Jamaica and parts of Asia
An old bakelite ash tray showing an example of a single digit phone number used in the early days of telecommunication. On 12 July 1906 the first Australian wireless overseas messages were sent between Point Lonsdale, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania. [3] Australia and New Zealand ratified the 1906 Berlin Radio-telegraph Convention in 1907.
This is a list of international dialing prefixes used in various countries for direct dialing of international telephone calls.These prefixes are typically required only when dialling from a landline, while in GSM-compliant mobile phone (cell phone) systems, only the symbol + before the country code may be used [citation needed] irrespective of where the telephone is used at that moment; the ...
ISO 3166-2:AU is the entry for Australia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Currently for Australia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 6 ...