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Telephone numbers in Australia | Notes
List of non-geographic numbers
Mobile phone numbers (04, 05)
Each mobile phone company is allocated numbers in blocks, which are listed below. However mobile number portability means an individual number might have been "ported". There are also many MVNOs which use numbers from their wholesaler or might have thei... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | The numbers 0491 570 156, 0491 570 157, 0491 570 158, 0491 570 159 and 0491 570 110 are reserved for fictitious use. |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Satellite phone numbers (014)
Numbers beginning with 014 are predominantly used for satellite services. Parts of the 014 prefix had previously been used as a 9 digit, AMPS mobile phone access code.
The 01471 prefix is the ten-digit replacement for the previous, nine-digit ITERRA satellite phone code 0071 xxxxx. Prior t... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Location independent communications service (0550)
These numbers are designed for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) systems, where they work like a fixed number but not allocated on a geographical level. It is possible that LICS numbers will be absorbed into mobile numbers in the future, as they provide similar featu... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Data numbers (0198)
All calls to 0198 numbers are a "local call" cost like 13 and 1300 numbers but are used for Internet service provider access numbers. They are used both with dial-up modems and ISDN. |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Obsolete numbers
Most numbers that are no longer used have been removed from the Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2015, whether in previous variations or in this complete replacement. (See below)
However, the 0163 prefix is still allocated for use with pagers. This was reduced from 016 in a variation to the previous n... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | List of non-geographic numbers (domestic use)
The following codes are not generally dialable from international points, but used in domestic dialling: |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 000 – Emergency (Police, Fire, Ambulance)
106 – TTY emergency (for the hearing-impaired)
11 – Community services
1100 – Before You Dig Australia (to prevent inadvertent damage to underground cables or infrastructure)
112 – Alternative access to Emergency Services (Police, Fire, Ambulance; diallable from GSM mobile phon... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | These numbers do not have a Trunk Access Code prefix (0).
The 106 number is believed to be the first nationwide TTY emergency service in the world.
13 xx xx, 1300 xxx xxx and 1800 xxx xxx numbers can provide source-based routing, used by organisations such as pizza chains that advertise one number nationwide that conne... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Emergency services numbers (000, 106, 112)
000 is the primary emergency telephone number in Australia. Secondary emergency numbers are 106 (for use by the hearing impaired with a TTY terminal) and the international GSM mobile emergency telephone number 112.
Increased awareness of the 112 emergency number in Australia h... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Local Rate and FreeCall numbers (13, 180)
Australia uses the free call prefix 1800 for 10 digit freecall numbers. This is similar to the North American or NANPA prefix 1–800, but while in North America, the 1 is the long-distance or toll prefix and 800 is the area code; 1800 in Australia is itself a "virtual area code"... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Premium numbers (19)
190x (not to be confused with 0198) is the prefix for premium rate services (e.g. recorded information, competition lines, psychics, phone sex, etc.). (Prior to the introduction of 8-digit local numbers, the prefix was 0055.) 190 numbers incur a rate as charged by the provider – either at a per-min... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | International access
The main international prefix is 0011. (E.164 international format is supported from phones with the ability to dial the '+' symbol.)
There are other codes for using a non-default carrier or a special plan: |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 0014 will route through the Primus network
0018 will route through the Telstra network
0019 will route through the Optus network
Formerly, 0015 would route through Telstra on a special mode for international faxing. Telstra has retired this code.
Carrier selection codes (14xx) are now also used, and carrier pre-selecti... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Carrier selection codes
These four-digit numbers are dialled before the destination number to complete and bill a call by a carrier other than the subscriber's service provider. For example, to use AAPT to call a number in Tokyo, Japan, subscribers would dial 1414 0011 81 3 xxxx xxxx, or to use Optus to call a number i... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 1410 – Telstra
1411 – Telstra
1412 – TPG (Was Chime)
1413 – Telstra
1414 – TPG (Was AAPT)
1415 – Vodafone
1422 – Premier Technologies
1423 – TPG (was Soul Pattinson)
1428 – Verizon Australia
1431 – Vodafone Hutchison
1434 – Symbio Networks
1441 – TPG (was Soul Pattinson)
1447 – TransACT
1450 – Pivotel
1455 – Netsip
145... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Supplementary control services
1831 – Block Caller ID sending
1832 – Unblock Caller ID sending |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Other numbers and codes
Test numbers
Telstra Landline Test numbers
12722123 – Playback the last connected or current landline number (add 1832 in front for private numbers)
12722199 – Ringback the current landline number
Telstra payphone test numbers
12722101 - will only take 1¢ per metering pulses
0488076353 - will te... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | Historical numbering plans
2010s
Many old numbers were officially removed from the Telecommunications Numbering Plan in the 2015 version, whether in the replacement version or a previous variation. |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 018 AMPS phone numbers are completely removed.
0500 Personal Numbers are removed.
Unused prefixes such as 114 mass calling service are removed. |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 1990s
0055 numbers were previously premium-rate numbers, but have been moved into 190 numbers before 1999.
The original toll-free area code was 008, but the format was changed to 1800.
Directory assistance used various numbers: 013 for local calls, 0175 for other national calls, and 0103 for international. The two dome... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | 1960s
Up to this time, the maximum size of an Australian telephone number was six digits.
Until the early 1960s, the first one or two digits of telephone numbers in metropolitan areas were alphabetic, with each letter representing a distinct number on the telephone dial. Each one-letter or two-letter code signified an ... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | A = 1;
B = 2;
F = 3;
J = 4;
L = 5;
M = 6;
U = 7;
W = 8;
X = 9;
Y = 0
The letters did not relate to any exchange name. For example, the exchange prefix for Essendon was FU (which translated to 37 and later became the 37x [then 937x] exchange used by the whole City of Essendon [which became the City of Moonee Valley in l... |
Telephone numbers in Australia | See also
Former Australian dialling codes
Telecommunications in Australia
Telephone numbers in Norfolk Island |
Telephone numbers in Australia | References
ITU allocations list |
Telephone numbers in Australia | External links
List of Telephone Exchanges
Excel file of exchange prefixes via Telstra Wholesale site
Telecommunications Numbering Plan 1997
Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2015
All Areas by Prefix (archive.org snapshot of old version of official site)
All Areas by Prefix (official site - expand heading Geographic nu... |
Indo-Australian Plate | The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters. It was formed by the fusion of the Indian and the Australian plates approximately 43 million years ago. The fusion hap... |
Indo-Australian Plate | Regions
Australia-New Guinea (Mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania), the Indian subcontinent, and Zealandia (New Caledonia, New Zealand, and Norfolk Island) are all fragments of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. As the ocean floor broke apart, these land masses fragmented from one another, and for a time ... |
Indo-Australian Plate | Characteristics
The eastern side of the plate is the convergent boundary with the Pacific Plate. The Pacific Plate sinks below the Australian plate and forms the Kermadec Trench and the island arcs of Tonga and Kermadec. New Zealand is situated along the southeastern boundary of the plate, which with New Caledonia make... |
Indo-Australian Plate | Plate movements
The eastern part (Australian Plate) is moving northward at the rate of 5.6 cm (2.2 in) per year while the western part (Indian Plate) is moving only at the rate of 3.7 cm (1.5 in) per year due to the impediment of the Himalayas. In terms of the middle of India and Australia's landmasses, Australia is mo... |
Indo-Australian Plate | Separation
Recent studies, and evidence from seismic events such as the 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes, suggest that the Indo-Australian Plate may have broken up into two or three separate plates due primarily to stresses induced by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate with Eurasia along what later became the Hima... |
Indo-Australian Plate |
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