Telephone numbers in Spain
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The Spanish telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of telephone number
Telephone number
A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...
s in Spain
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. It is regulated by CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones).
History
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changed to a closed telephone numbering plan in 1998. Previously, the trunk prefix was '9', but this was incorporated into the subscriber's number, so that a nine-digit number was used for all calls, eg:
xxx xxx[x] (within Spain before 1998)
9x xxx xxxx (within Spain, since 1998)
+34 x xxx xxxx (outside Spain before 1998)
+34 9x xxx xxxx (since 1998)
Mobiles similarly changed: they are now prefixed with the digit '6' or '7':
909 xxx xxx (within Spain before 1998)
+34 09 xxx xxx (outside Spain before 1998)
+34 6xx xxx xxx (since 1998)
+34 7yx xxx xxx (since 2009-10; note y cannot be 0 (zero) because this is allocated as a personal number, see below)
New numbering ranges have also since been introduced:
10xx Carrier selection codes
5xx xxx xxx Personal Numbering
Personal Numbering
Personal numbering is the name for virtual telephone number services in a number of countries including the UK and Spain. Typically the national destination code used for this service is 70 service. This service has historically been poorly defined by Oftel and also Ofcom...
8xx xxx xxx Geographic expansion
800 xxx xxx Freephone
900 xxx xxx Freephone
80x xxx xxx Shared cost
90x xxx xxx Shared cost
Spain's international access code also changed from 07 to 00, but this did not affect dialing arrangements for calls to Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
, in which the provincial code 9567 was used instead of the international code 350, eg:
9567 xxxxx (Gibraltar from Spain) | This is no longer the case, needs to be updated.
+350 xxxxx (Gibraltar from all other countries)
+34 9567 xxxxx (Gibraltar via Spain)
This arrangement was discontinued on 10 February 2007 when Spain adopted the international 00350 prefix for all calls to Gibraltar. See Gibraltar telecom dispute
Gibraltar telecom dispute
Direct telephone connections between Gibraltar and Spain were severed in 1969, when land communications between both territories were halted by the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, and were not restored until 1986...
.
International Number Lengths
Minimum number length after International prefix : 3 digits (Most numbers, other than service numbers, are at least 9 digits.)Maximum number length after International prefix : 9 digits
Present Numbering Plan
There is no Long Distance Prefix in Spanish numbers. If you are tryingto call 91 234 5678, you must use that exact number from Spain, and
+34 91 234 5678 from abroad.
Landlines
Spanish landline phone numbers total nine digits: a two or three-digitarea code and a six or seven-digit phone number (e.g. 91 234 5678)
beginning with the digit 9 (or sometimes 8) but excluding 90 and 80. Landline
area codes follow a geographic numbering system.
Mobile Phones
Mobile phone numbers begin with 6 or 7, followed by 8 digits (6xy zzz zzz 7xy zzz zzz), where x can be 1 to 9, not 0 (zero). Note, numbers starting with 70 are personal numbers which can be re-directed to any other number by the personal owner. Since the blocks of mobile phone numbers are allocated according to demand from the service providers, there is not necessarily a unique service provider indicated by the three digit numbering group (6xy or 7xy).In October 2009, new legislation was approved to grant the allocation of up to 80,000,000 new numbers beginning with number 7 (followed by 8 digits) to supplement the existing group beginning with number 6 (followed by 8 digits); due to the lack of available numbers to satisfy the increasing demand for mobile phone and other mobile / wireless services.
Personal Numbering
Personal numbersPersonal Numbering
Personal numbering is the name for virtual telephone number services in a number of countries including the UK and Spain. Typically the national destination code used for this service is 70 service. This service has historically been poorly defined by Oftel and also Ofcom...
are used as redirection IDs. The owner of a personal number
may request, for example, any call to its personal number to be redirected
to any other number it wants.
Personal numbers begin with 5, followed by 8 digits.
Other numbers
- Numbers starting with 2, 3, 4, 5, and 99 are reserved.
- Numbers starting with 0 and 1 are used to compose short numbers or for prefixes.
- Numbers starting with 80 and 90 are used for premium rates, toll free, and internet access numbers. 803, 806, and 807 prefixes are used for premium rate calls, where the caller pays a fixed amount of money per minute. 905 numbers are supposed to be used for voting systems. Calls have a limited duration (typically 3 minutes), and are charged a fixed rate per call. They are often used in TV shows as a substitutive of 80 numbers, both for image reasons and because operators are not obliged to block them on a user request, as 80 numbers are
- 900 numbers are freephone numbers in Spain. 901 numbers are low-cost, typically less than the cost of a provincial call (within the same province). The company receiving the calls does not pay for calls coming from within the same province and pays a small charge for interprovincial (national) calls and calls from mobiles. The client pays the full cost of calls to 902 numbers, although typically the rate is less than the standard rate for an interprovincial call.
Telephone prefixes
| National Destination Code | Max length | Min length | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 | 3 | Short Number |
| 00 | 2 | 2 | International Prefix |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Short Number |
| 103 | 6 | 4 | Operator Selection |
| 104 | 6 | 4 | Operator Selection |
| 105 | 6 | 4 | Operator Selection |
| 107 | 6 | 4 | Operator Selection |
| 112 | 3 | 3 | Emergency Services |
| 118 | 5 | 5 | Directory assistance Directory assistance In telecommunications, directory assistance or directory enquiries is a phone service used to find out a specific telephone number and/or address of a residence, business, or government entity.-Technology:... |
| 5 | 9 | 9 | Personal Numbering Personal Numbering Personal numbering is the name for virtual telephone number services in a number of countries including the UK and Spain. Typically the national destination code used for this service is 70 service. This service has historically been poorly defined by Oftel and also Ofcom... System |
| 6 | 9 | 9 | Cell phones |
| 800 | 9 | 9 | Toll Free |
| 803 | 9 | 9 | Premium Rate (adult services) |
| 806 | 9 | 9 | Premium Rate (entertaining service) |
| 807 | 9 | 9 | Premium Rate (professional services) |
| 822 | 9 | 9 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province |
| 824 | 9 | 9 | Badajoz Province |
| 828 | 9 | 9 | Las Palmas Province |
| 843 | 9 | 9 | Guipúzcoa Province |
| 848 | 9 | 9 | Navarre Province |
| 856 | 9 | 9 | Cádiz Province |
| 858 | 9 | 9 | Granada Province |
| 868 | 9 | 9 | Murcia Province |
| 871 | 9 | 9 | Balearic Islands Province |
| 872 | 9 | 9 | Girona Province |
| 873 | 9 | 9 | Lleida Province |
| 876 | 9 | 9 | Zaragoza Province |
| 877 | 9 | 9 | Tarragona Province |
| 881 | 9 | 9 | A Coruña Province |
| 886 | 9 | 9 | Pontevedra Province |
| 900 | 9 | 9 | Toll Free |
| 901 | 9 | 9 | Shared-cost call |
| 902 | 9 | 9 | National Rate |
| 905 | 9 | 9 | Telephone Voting System |
| 907 | 9 | 9 | Premium Rate (data systems) |
| 908 | 9 | 9 | Internet Access |
| 909 | 9 | 9 | Internet Access |
| 911 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province (Segovia and Guadalajara until 1993) |
| 912 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 913 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 914 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 915 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 916 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 917 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province |
| 918 | 9 | 9 | Madrid Province (Ávila until 1993) |
| 920 | 9 | 9 | Ávila Province |
| 921 | 9 | 9 | Segovia Province |
| 922 | 9 | 9 | Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province |
| 923 | 9 | 9 | Salamanca Province |
| 924 | 9 | 9 | Badajoz Province |
| 925 | 9 | 9 | Toledo Province |
| 926 | 9 | 9 | Ciudad Real Province |
| 927 | 9 | 9 | Cáceres Province |
| 928 | 9 | 9 | Las Palmas Province |
| 931 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 932 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 933 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 934 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 935 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 936 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 937 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 938 | 9 | 9 | Barcelona Province |
| 940 | 9 | 9 | Pager Services |
| 941 | 9 | 9 | La Rioja Province |
| 942 | 9 | 9 | Cantabria Province |
| 943 | 9 | 9 | Guipúzcoa Province |
| 944 | 9 | 9 | Vizcaya Province |
| 945 | 9 | 9 | Álava Province |
| 946 | 9 | 9 | Vizcaya Province |
| 947 | 9 | 9 | Burgos Province |
| 948 | 9 | 9 | Navarre Province |
| 949 | 9 | 9 | Guadalajara Province |
| 950 | 9 | 9 | Almería Province |
| 951 | 9 | 9 | Málaga Province |
| 952 | 9 | 9 | Málaga Province |
| 953 | 9 | 9 | Jaén Province |
| 954 | 9 | 9 | Seville Province |
| 955 | 9 | 9 | Seville Province |
| 956 | 9 | 9 | Cádiz Province |
| 957 | 9 | 9 | Córdoba Province |
| 958 | 9 | 9 | Granada Province |
| 959 | 9 | 9 | Huelva Province |
| 960 | 9 | 9 | Valencia Province |
| 961 | 9 | 9 | Valencia, Center of province |
| 962 | 9 | 9 | Valencia, South of province |
| 963 | 9 | 9 | Valencia City and surroundings |
| 964 | 9 | 9 | Castellón Province |
| 965 | 9 | 9 | Alicante Province |
| 966 | 9 | 9 | Alicante Province |
| 967 | 9 | 9 | Albacete Province |
| 968 | 9 | 9 | Murcia Province |
| 969 | 9 | 9 | Cuenca Province |
| 971 | 9 | 9 | Balearic Islands Province |
| 972 | 9 | 9 | Girona Province |
| 973 | 9 | 9 | Lleida Province |
| 974 | 9 | 9 | Huesca Province |
| 975 | 9 | 9 | Soria Province |
| 976 | 9 | 9 | Zaragoza Province |
| 977 | 9 | 9 | Tarragona Province |
| 978 | 9 | 9 | Teruel Province |
| 979 | 9 | 9 | Palencia Province |
| 980 | 9 | 9 | Zamora Province |
| 981 | 9 | 9 | A Coruña Province |
| 982 | 9 | 9 | Lugo Province |
| 983 | 9 | 9 | Valladolid Province |
| 984 | 9 | 9 | Asturias Province |
| 985 | 9 | 9 | Asturias Province |
| 986 | 9 | 9 | Pontevedra Province |
| 987 | 9 | 9 | León Province |
| 988 | 9 | 9 | Ourense Province |
External links
- Spanish Numbering plan from CMT/Spanish Communications Regulator (Spanish)
- Operator codes assigned to each network - Due to portability it can change - Registration Needed
- Real Decreto 2296/2004, de 10 de diciembre (Spanish)
- Resolución de 30 de junio de 2005, de la Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información por la que se atribuyen recursos públicos de numeración al servicio telefónico fijo disponible al público y a los servicios vocales nómadas, y se adjudican determinados indicativos provinciales (Spanish)