Until 1999,
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...
,
Kenya
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and
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The ...
shared a
telephone 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, re ...
, in which subscribers were only required to dial the trunk code, area code and number. In that year, Tanzania adopted a new numbering plan. Calls to Kenya and Uganda require a regional prefix rather than having to use full international dialling. To call Kenya from Tanzania, subscribers dial 005 instead of
+254, while to call Uganda, they dial 006 rather instead of
+256. To call Tanzania from Kenya and Uganda, subscribers dial 007 instead of +255.
Format
* +255 XXX XXX XXX +255XX XXX XXXX calling from outside Tanzania
* 0XXX XXX XXX or 0XX XXX XXXX - calling within Tanzania
The NSN length is nine digits.
* Subscriber Number length under 2X, 4X, 6X and 7X NDCs is 7 digits.
* Subscriber Number length under 8XY and 90X NDCs is 6 digits.
Geographic number for fixed telephony services (area codes)
VoIP services
VoIP services begin with 41:
Mobile telephone numbers
Mobile numbers start with 6 or 7:
Special and premium rate numbers
Non-geographic numbering begins 8 or 9:
Short codes
*
112 replaced 999 for emergency calls as of 2000-10-31.
*118 replaced 991 for directory enquiries as of 2000-10-31.
External links
World Telephone Numbering Guide
References
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...
Communications in Tanzania
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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