The
dialing code for
Kosovo is +383. It was assigned by the
ITU
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 ...
following an agreement between the authorities of
Kosovo and
Serbia in an EU-led dialog. Its dialing code was initially expected to become effective on January 1, 2015 but it was postponed to the finalization of the agreement in late August 2015. With the agreement of the Administration of the Republic of Serbia, the Director of TSB has assigned the international codes to Kosovo. Kosovo is represented in ITU as Kosovo* which the designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with
UNSCR 1244
United Nations Security Council resolution 1244, adopted on 10 June 1999, after recalling resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998) and 1239 (1999), authorised an international civil and military presence in the Federal Republic of Yugo ...
and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence. The
EU has handed over the temporary authorisation for mobile and the licence for fixed telephony services to be undertaken in Kosovo issued by the Kosovo Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to mts d.o.o.
History
Following the breakup of the
SFR Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...
in 1992, which had +38 as country code, Kosovo used the code
+381, which was granted to
FR Yugoslavia and later used by
Serbia. The code was used for fixed line telephone services, whereas for mobile phone networks, it used either the
Monaco code
+377
Telephone numbers in Monaco are eight digits in length, with fixed line numbers beginning with the digit 9 and mobile phone numbers with the digit 6.
Overview
Until 21 June 1996, Monaco formed part of the French numbering plan, with fixed lin ...
or the
Slovenian code
+386. The new calling code +383 began its use in early 2017.
Current Number Range
Reactions to +383 code allocation
The International Telecommunication Union "will not recognize Kosovo's independence", quote daily ''
Koha Ditore
''Koha Ditore'' (trans. ''Daily Time'') is the leading daily newspaper in Kosovo. It is published by Koha Group and was founded and owned by politician Veton Surroi. His sister Flaka Surroi is now the publisher, following Veton Surroi's launch of h ...
'', "as ITU will include the footnote on Kosovo" in the technical annexes. Kosovo's NISMA party leader
Fatmir Limaj was quoted by KosovaPress agency to have said that with the agreement reached in
Brussels, the Kosovo government "allowed the Serbian operator to work in Kosovo". Vice chairman of Kosovo's
Vetëvendosje party,
Shpend Ahmeti claimed that the agreement favored Serbia. "Telephone calls between cities in Serbia and cities in Kosovo will be treated as local calls. Serbia will preserve its assets in Kosovo and it will also have a license for Serb operators within Kosovo. For these favors, Serbia will allow Kosovo to have its own country code."
Telephony
Fixed-line telephony
Mobile telephony
Special codes
Notes
References
External links
*
List of Recommendation ITU-T E.164 Assigned Country Codes
Kosovo
Kosovo-related lists
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