Telephone code (East Timor)
The telephone area code numbers of East Timor specify the phone numbers for the individual communities in the country to begin. The country code for East Timor is +670.
history
In 1912 there was already a telephone network in Portuguese Timor that linked the individual military posts in the colony. The international code was +672. The infrastructure remained poor, however, until the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999), in which the network was expanded, but suffered severe damage as a result of the wave of violence in 1999 around the independence referendum . During the occupation, East Timor was integrated into Indonesia's telephone system and could be reached using the country code +62, followed by the area codes for the two largest cities, Dili (390) and Baucau (399).
After the Indonesians had left and the United Nations took over the interim administration for East Timor , the country code +670 was introduced in early 2000, previously used by the Northern Mariana Islands . However, they introduced the United States' telephone prefix in 1997 , so that the telephones there can now be reached via +670.
In 2010, 54.3% of households (86.3% in cities, 43.2% in rural areas) had a telephone, be it a landline or a mobile phone. The current definition of the telephone number system was introduced in 2013 by the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
Mobile phones
Cell phone numbers have at least seven and a maximum of eight digits.
providers | Phone number |
---|---|
TELIN / TELKOMCEL | 73xxxxxx |
TELIN / TELKOMCEL | 74xxxxxx |
VIETTEL / TELMOR | 75xxxxxx |
VIETTEL / TELMOR | 76xxxxxx |
Timor Telecom | 77xxxxxx old: 7xxxxxx |
Timor Telecom | 78xxxxxx |
Landline numbers
Landline numbers consist of seven digits, with the first two defining the municipality. They were introduced on September 28, 2003. The numbers in the west of East Timor start with a 2 , in the center with a 3 and in the east with a 4 . Telephone numbers for government agencies in Dili start with 333 .
Connections that existed before 2013 had phone numbers with six digits. With the change in the system, a 3 was added after the regional number. No telephone number is followed by a 1 , 7 , 8 or 9 after the two regional digits .
local community | Phone number |
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Manufahi | 21xxxxx |
Cova Lima | 22xxxxx |
Bobonaro | 23xxxxx |
Ainaro | 24xxxxx |
Oe-Cusse Ambeno | 25xxxxx |
Dili | 31xxxxx |
Dili | 32xxxxx |
Dili | 33xxxxx |
Liquiçá | 36xxxxx |
Aileu | 37xxxxx |
Ermera | 38xxxxx |
Baucau | 41xxxxx |
Manatuto | 42xxxxx |
Viqueque | 43XXXXX |
Lautém | 44XXXXX |
More numbers
service | Phone number |
---|---|
Special rates | 80x xxxx |
Premium rate service | 90x xxxx |
"Personal numbering" | 70x xxxx |
Voicemail | 71x xxxx |
Paging | 79x xxxx |
Short numbers | Phone number |
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Prepaid service PPS Recharge | 100 |
Prepaid service PPS Balance | 102 |
Emergency call | 112 |
fire Department | 115 |
Emergency number for people with suspected COVID-19 | 119 |
Operator assistance | 120 |
Damage reporting office | 121 |
Customer service | 123 |
Directory assistance | 128 |
Customer service Timor Telecom | 172 |
Internal, technical service Timor Telecom (switching) | 190 |
Internal, technical service Timor Telecom (local network) | 197 |
Telephone numbers for other information services begin with 800 or 900 .
For international calls from East Timor , dial 00 before the country code .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monika Schlicher: Portugal in East Timor. A critical study of the Portuguese colonial history in East Timor from 1850 to 1912. Aberag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-934376-08-8 .
- ↑ a b Ken Westmoreland: A Pretty Unfair Place: East Timor Ten Years After Self-determination , p. 127, 2009 .
- ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Suco Report Volume 4 (English) ( Memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.8 MB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h International Telecommunication Union : Timor-Leste (country code +670) , April 23, 2013 , accessed on May 28, 2016.
- ↑ La'o Hamutuk: State of Emergency: March-April 2020 , accessed March 29, 2020.