Telephone code (Austria)
The telephone prefix codes in Austria are organized and assigned by Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH (RTR). There are regulations and guidelines for assigning number ranges. Responsibility for the allocation and use of numbers within the area code is then the responsibility of the relevant network operator (for regional codes, this is usually A1 Telekom Austria , for mobile phone codes, the relevant network operator, etc.).
Structure of the code
There are no legal regulations in Austria for the spelling of telephone numbers , but the RTR recommends using DIN 5008 . More on this under phone number / spellings .
The first digit of the area code is roughly based on the federal states. East Tyrol (to Carinthia ), Vorarlberg (to Tyrol ), Burgenland (northern part to Lower Austria, southern part to Styria ) and some border districts in Upper Austria (to Salzburg ) as well as areas in Lower Austria (to Upper Austria) are the exception.
Scheme
Dialing an Austrian number from abroad is done as follows:
- International traffic elimination number +43 ( country code ) + area code (without the leading zero) + telephone number
Dialing within the country can usually be done as follows:
- Area code (with 0) + phone number
In the landline network , a number in the same area code can be dialed without the area code. This only works to a limited extent in cellular networks.
The area code is the area code of a location, cellular network or other type of network. Since the introduction of number portability in mobile communications, the selected network can no longer be determined with certainty using the area code. If a dialed number is actually in a different cellular network than the one expected from the area code, an automatic brief notification (announcement) is usually given when the connection is established.
Cellular
In Austria, the area codes of all mobile networks start with the sequence 06, followed by two more digits (06xx). The historical background is that the first Mobile Switching Center for the C-Netz (0663) started in 1984 was in Salzburg. Since many area codes in and around the federal state of Salzburg also begin with 06, it is not easy to tell from the 06xx area code whether it is a mobile or landline number. For example, Salzburg (city) has the area code 0662. As of March 30, 2011, RTR has specified the following number ranges for subscriber numbers in mobile communications:
- 0650 to 0653
- 0655
- 0657
- 0659 to 0661
- 0663 to 0699
As of June 1, 2016, the following number ranges and blocks have been allocated for mobile network operators from the above pool:
- 0650 completely
- 0655 00 to 29
- 0660 completely
- 0661 00 and 10
- 0663 03, 05 and 63
- 0664 complete
- 0665 65 and 66
- 0667 66 and 77
- 0670 10, 20, 30, 60, 67, 70, 77, 80 and 90
- 0676 complete
- 0677 18, 60 to 67 and 99
- 0678 10, 33, 70 and 90
- 0680 10 to 55, 60, 68 and 77
- 0681 10 and 11, 20 and 21, 77, 81 to 84 and 90
- 0688 19, 60 to 64, 77 and 80 to 99
- 0690 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 69, 80 and 90
- 0699 completely
List of telephone prefixes in Austria
Area codes
The complete list of "area codes" contains all the places in which the (main) telephone exchange for the area code in question is located (in the notation of the list of "Rundfunk und Telekom Regulierungs-GmbH" (RTR-GmbH)).
Since an area code can encompass several municipalities or parts thereof, the assignment is only partially correct. This list is initially sorted like the RTR list. All area codes are given without a leading zero. Additionally specified municipalities (without a telephone exchange) are marked with an asterix (*) after the area code, the location of the telephone exchange can be found by sorting by area code!
- (go to cellular networks )
Cellular networks
Sorted by area code in ascending order.
| Cellular network | Network operated by | prefix |
|---|---|---|
| 3 1 | 0660, 0699 | |
| Saturn Mobil / Media Markt Mobil | 3 | 0663 |
| A1 Telekom Austria (A1) | 0664 | |
| Magenta Telecom | 0676 | |
| HoT - Hofer Telekom und Service GmbH (a subsidiary of Ventocom GmbH) | Magenta Telecom | 0677 |
| Alliance SIM | Magenta Telecom | 0677 |
| UPC Mobile | 3 | 0678 |
| tele.ring 3 | Magenta Telecom | 0650 |
| aonMobil | A1 Telekom Austria | 066473 |
| bob 4 | A1 Telekom Austria | 0680 |
| eTel 5 | A1 Telekom Austria | 06991599 |
| Tele2 and C-Cube 6 | A1 Telekom Austria | 069988, 069989, 06888 |
| Yesss 4 | A1 Telekom Austria | 069981, 069982 and parts of 0681 |
| eety 4 | 3 | 0665 |
| Red Bull Mobile | A1 Telekom Austria | 0664 |
| Ge-org 7 | A1 Telekom Austria | 0650 (expiring), 0681 |
| s-budget-mobile (tele.ring) | Magenta Telecom | 0650 |
| Spusu (Mass Response) | 3 | 0670 |
| YouTalk (tele.ring) | Magenta Telecom | 0650 |
| Vectone 8 (Mundio Mobile Austria, formerly Barablu Mobile Austria) | Magenta Telecom | 06889 (06610 not active) |
| delightmobile 8 (Mundio Mobile Austria) | Magenta Telecom | 06889 |
| Lycamobile Austria | A1 Telekom Austria | 06886 |
| Tele2 Mobile | Tele2 | 0690 |
| Lidl Connect | 3 | 0690 |
In addition, parts of the area code 0677 and 0678 T-Mobile and NETCO 3G GmbH (a subsidiary of Hutchison 3G Austria) are allocated, but have not yet been used.
- 1 Hutchison 3G Austria operates a pure UMTS network with around 95% network coverage (as of early 2009). Outside the self-supplied area, the A1 Telekom Austria GSM network is used by way of national roaming. Since July 2012, Hutchison has also been using the Magenta Telekom network for national roaming, which is now also working in metropolitan areas.
Since Orange was taken over by Drei, the former Orange area code 0699 has also been assigned to it.
- 2 master-talk Austria Telekom Service GmbH was originally a network operator for a digital trunked radio network based on the TETRA standard - exclusively for business customers in the "wireless communication" and "e-business" sectors. Founded in 1999, dissolved in 2003; The aim was to market the TETRA / GSM combination from a single source. It was planned that the customer would not have to take care of the network expansion. See e.g. B. Orange Austria or A1 where the provider provides the system and the user logs in .
- 3 tele.ring was bought by T-Mobile in 2005 and has not operated its own mobile network since then, but is in the T-Mobile network, which was expanded to include former tele.ring resources. Due to a requirement of the European Commission, numerous transmission systems and frequencies were given to other network operators (three in particular).
- 4 bob is a discount brand, Yesss is a discount company of A1 Telekom Austria . Eety is a discount company.
- 5 The former company eTel has been merged under company law with what is now A1 Telekom Austria since mid-2008 and no longer exists as a legal entity .
- 6 Tele2mobil was a discount division of Tele2 and used the Orange Austria network (then ONE). At the end of March 2008 Tele2 sold its mobile communications division to what is now A1 Telekom Austria, which integrated customers into the network of its discount brand “bob”.
- 7 Until January 1st, 2014 Ge-org used the telering or T-Mobile Austria network with the area code 0650. These numbers are and were managed like normal tele.ring numbers via the tele.ring customer center. Ge-org has been offering its own customer center since the operator changed to A1 Telekom Austria.
- 8 Barablu Mobile Austria has been renamed Mundio mobile (Austria) Limited and uses the brand names Vectone (mobile) and delightmobile. It is a completely independent mobile network provider (MVNO) with its own telephone network, but which does not have its own radio network and therefore used that of A1 Telekom Austria and switched to T-Mobile in 2014.
The number porting means that the operator can no longer be inferred with certainty from the area code. The operators continue to have administrative sovereignty over their area codes.
Special number ranges
In ascending order of numbers ("x" stands for any single digit from 0–9).
| Services) | Number range | Speed dial |
|---|---|---|
|
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Numbers for private networks with a regulated upper fee limit |
0501 - 0509 0517 057 059 |
|
| Personal services | 0710 a 0730 a 0740 a |
|
| A1 Telekom Austria value-added services | 0711 a | |
| Dial-in - Internet provider (subscriber numbers for dial-up access) | 0718 0804 |
|
| Subscriber numbers in the area for location-independent numbers , e.g. IP telephony (VoIP) |
0720 | |
| Convergent services | 0780 | |
| Free services | 0800 0802 a |
|
| Current time ( time announcement ) | 0810 001503 (earlier 1503) |
|
| Services with prescribed maximum tariffs | 0810 0820 0821 0828 |
|
| Value-added services | 0900 0901 0930 0931 |
|
| Value-added online services ( dialer ) | 0939 | |
| Connection network operator selection call-by-call provider | 10xx | |
| Public free short numbers for emergency services , 24/7 availability | 1xx | |
| Uniform European emergency number | 112 | |
| Fire brigade (emergency call) | 122 | |
| Emergency number in the event of gas failure | 128 | |
| Police (emergency call) | 133 | |
| Mountain rescue (emergency call) | 140 | |
| Medical radio service (emergency call) | 141 | |
| Telephone counseling | 142 | |
| Rescue (emergency call) | 144 | |
| Emergency call service for children and young people ( advice on wire ) | 147 | |
| Public abbreviated numbers for special services | 1xx (xx) | |
| Help with a car breakdown ( ÖAMTC ) | 120 c | |
| Help with a car breakdown ( ARBÖ ) | 123 c | |
| State warning centers | 130 | |
| Health advice | 145 0 b | |
| Pharmacy services | 145 5 | |
| Ambulance | 148 4x | |
| Fault point | 111xx (x) | |
| Public short numbers for harmonized services of social value | 116 xxx | |
| Public abbreviated numbers for directory inquiry services | 118xx (x) | |
| Speed dials with a star (only in mobile communications) | * xxx (xx) | |
| Services) | Number range | Speed dial |
a: Number ranges that are not (any longer) provided for in the KEM-V
b: Telephone health
advice c: Test operation since December 9, 1981, nationwide from 1982
particularities
- Originally Vienna had the area code 222, it was only changed to 1 in the 1990s, until then 1 was only provided for special numbers. Until May 12, 2007, the old area code 222 was still permitted in addition to 1.
- Originally (up to the 1970s) four-digit local area codes were also valid for the larger provincial capitals: Graz 3122, Linz 7222, Klagenfurt 4222, Innsbruck 5222, Salzburg 6222. While for the network elimination number "0" the dial, which was common at that time, needed a full second for clicking and whirring , it was a brisk, mechanized exercise to dial the lower number “2” three times, with the finger being moved back rather gently when reversing and hardly pulled out of the finger hole. Since Vienna always had more participants and therefore phone numbers with one more digit, the code there was only 222.
- Linz was changed to 732 on October 1, 1977, with the older number remaining valid for two years in parallel. For Linz, the alternative accessibility under the local area code 70 was valid until May 12, 2014. This was introduced in the 1960s to shorten the number for voestalpine AG in order to make international accessibility of up to 5-digit extensions after the 3-digit connection number 585 To ensure that in some foreign telephone networks (mainly states of the former Eastern Bloc ) a maximum number of twelve characters applied. (00 43 70 585 12345 has 12 digits). The area code 70 initially only worked for international dialing and only after 1997 for national long-distance calls. - For the same motivation, the large research institute GSI in Darmstadt , founded in 1969, received the telephone connection in the neighboring town of Messel , since a two-digit subscriber number was only available in its local network, like Darmstadt with a 4-digit area code and 4-digit extensions in the GSI.
- Graz was converted to 316 around the same time as Linz.
See also
- Telephone code (Germany)
- Telephone code (Switzerland)
- Austrian mobile communications market
- List of mobile phone providers in Austria
Web links
- Rundfunk & Telekom Regulierungs GmbH
- Austrian numbering plan - with arithmetically ascending listing of the telephone area codes
Individual evidence
- ↑ National numbers according to RTR
- ^ Presentation of E.164 National Numbering. For Country Code 43, Austria ; As of March 2, 2017
- ↑ derStandard.at - Allianz starts its own discount mobile operator: With device insurance . Article dated September 7, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015.
- ↑ Network cooperation between "3" and T-Mobile started derstandard.at, July 4, 2012.
- ↑ Mobile communications - and then there were 5 ( Memento from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) telekom-presse.at, 2001
- ↑ master-talk-the business alternative in the field of corporate radio & telecommunications , pte.at, January 18, 2001.
- ↑ Caution! Change of operator at Ge org! Georg.at homepage, accessed on July 15, 2014
- ↑ The Schorsch whistles on T-Mobile: Media-Saturn-Mobilfunker Georg! changes to A1 , elektrojournal.at, January 24, 2014
- ↑ Communication Parameters, Fee and Value Added Services Ordinance 2009 Federal Law Gazette II No. 212/2009, accessed on November 30, 2013
- ↑ 1450 - the health number. The number for your health advice over the phone. In: 1450.at. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Breakdown service of the ARBÖ now under '123' . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 10, 1981, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Salad of numbers