Number range
A number range (number range for short) or a number range is a specific range of telephone prefixes .
Number range
A number range is usually a smaller range of specific telephone numbers . Such areas can be assigned to a single network operator or to specific telephone services ( special numbers ).
A telephone call that begins with the area code from a certain number range can be free of charge for the caller (e.g. number range 0800 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and in various other countries) or at extra cost (at a certain minute or Fixed price). The fixed assignment of number ranges to services and / or costs has u for the caller. a. the advantage of a cost cap. With number porting and free pricing ( offline billing ) of 0900 value-added services , this property of number ranges is increasingly being lost.
Further examples of number ranges are various area codes for German mobile phone providers ( 015 , 016 , 017 ) or Austrian mobile phone providers ( 065, 066, 067, 068, 069 ) or Swiss mobile phone providers ( 076, 077, 078, 079 ) or the location-independent number range 032 in Germany .
Number space
More extensive ranges of numbers or those for original subscriber numbers of participants - telephone connections are provided are, however, usually number space called.