International Networks is the name given by the
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...
(ITU) to
country calling codes +882 and +883, and serves as a catch-all for telephone services not dedicated to a single country.
Satellite telephone
A satellite telephone, satellite phone or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio through orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do. The advantage of a ...
carriers, especially those with worldwide service, are allocated within the
Global Mobile Satellite System The Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS) consists of several satellite phone providers serving private customers. It can be compared to PLMN ( wireless telephony carriers) and PSTN (traditional wire-based telephony).
As of 2008, ranges of numbers ...
(GMSS), country code +881, with the exception of non-terrestrial
Inmarsat, country code 870.
As in the other such shared country codes, carriers are allocated number space within this code space plus their identification code (two-digit number in 882 code space, three or four digit number in 883 code space). The phone number for a subscriber of such a service starts with +882/+883 followed by the carrier code.
The cost to call such a number can be high; for example in the
British Telecom price list rates for various 882 and 883 numbers ranged from £0.60 to £4.50 per minute.
Carrier codes
As of November 27, 2017 the assignments of +882/+883 carrier codes are as follows:
Active
In the +882-99 block, two numbering spaces collide: The numbering area has officially been assigned to Telenor but prior to this assignment,
e164.org started to assign unofficial numbers within that numbering area.
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Inactive
The following codes were previously assigned by the ITU but were not used as of 2007:
References
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External links
iNum OFFICIAL WebsiteVoxbone, the company behind iNUM creationITU-T SG2 NCT: E.164 country code 882 plus one 2-digit ICList of ITU-T Recommendation E.164 assigned country codes
Country codes