On February 1, 2004
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
introduced a new closed telephone numbering plan with an open dialing plan.
Numbering scheme
Telephone numbers in Moldova follow an
open numbering plan
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, rea ...
and consist of 8 national significant numbers (NSN). The National Significant Number consists of 2-3 digits for the National Destination Code and 5-6 digits for the Subscriber Number (SN).
National destination code
National destination codes are allocated as follows:
The
trunk prefix
A trunk prefix is a digit sequence to be dialed before a telephone number to initiate a telephone call for the purpose of selecting an appropriate telecommunications circuit by which the call is to be routed.
Making a domestic (national) telephone ...
in Moldova is 0.
Area codes
Dialling example
* 0-22-xx-xx-xx – call within
Chişinău
* 0-xxx-xx-x-xx – call between other localities in Moldova
* 0-xx-xx-xx-xx – call between localities and mobile phone companies
* +373-xxx-xx-xxx – call between Moldova and
Transnistria
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...
References
External links
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
Telecommunications in Moldova
Telephone numbers
A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices f ...
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