How many digits do you have to dial to reach a local number?

[dead0man]

Omaha/eastern Nebraska recently went to a 10 digit dialing plan for local numbers and I was just wondering what others did for local calls.

[Franzl]

In Germany it's variable. Can be as low as 4 or as high as 6.

7 in Alton, IL.

[dead0man]

How do they do 4?  I would assume the first number would be "special" (so the telephone switch knows you ain't making a "longer" call) and that would leave you with just 999 subscibers to call.  That's VERY local.

[Franzl]

How do they do 4?  I would assume the first number would be "special" (so the telephone switch knows you ain't making a "longer" call) and that would leave you with just 999 subscibers to call.  That's VERY local.

I don't know the details, to be honest. Germany has "city codes" that basically function like area codes in the U.S. (69 for Frankfurt for example...although the city codes can also vary in length up to 4 digits )

If I call within my city code, I do NOT start dialing with a zero. I assume that tells the phone it's local. (Calling Frankfurt from here would be (0)-69-xxxxx (or however many digits.)

[dead0man]

ahhh...that makes sense.  Well, some sense.

[bgwah]

7, I think... I don't live in the same area code as my cellphone, so I'm used to 10...

[Ban my account ffs!]

7 on landlines
10 on cell phones.

[memphis]

7, but just about everybody I call is already programmed in my phone. Hardly ever need the numbers.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

10 for all calls

[Hash]

10, including 3-digit area code. Always, I think.

[Gustaf]

7 I think although I have to do the area code when I use my cell phone, which is all I have. And then it's 9 in total.

[Platypus]

To call home, I need 61 from overseas, plus 03 from interstate to direct to Victoria, plus 9 to direct to Melbourne (8 for rest of the state) then 646 for the suburb (there are a few other codes, such as 626 and 699, iirc) and then four numbers for the specific line, the final one being for a private telephone number rather than a business, fax, school or whatever I think. But a lot of that has now become unnecessary with the new routing system. I think the only part that still matters is the state code, and that a number can be transferred anywhere in Victoria. Mobiles are all 04xxxxxxxx, with the initial two acting as equivalent to state codes. That may change soon.

[tpfkaw]

9 for calls inside the same area code, 10 for calls outside.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

7, but when I was growing up it was 5.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I think it's 7, but I do 10 always anyway out of habit.

When I lived in the dorms in college we could dial 4 to other rooms in the dorms on the landlines we have (obviously this is the only time anyone used the lineline.)

[MasterJedi]

7, not sure if I have to do 10 for cell phones numbers. For the people I know that are local they're all in my address book so I call them that way and any new numbers are usually not local so I have to dial 10 anyways.

[Boris]

10 for all calls, but dialing numbers more than once is so 20th century

[Хahar 🤔]

7

There's a plan to split the 408 area code. Hopefully it's a split and not an overlay. I don't want to have to dial ten digits.

[Lief 🗽]

I've literally not used a landline at all in something like three years, and never in DC, though I assume you need 10 digits here. In Austin you only need seven, unless something's changed.

[nclib]

7, though occasionally 10 to dial some in a different part of the area code.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

10 for all calls, but dialing numbers more than once is so 20th century

Actually, I still dial numbers for real.  We have a Western Electric Model 554 wall mounted rotary phone in the downstairs hallway.  It doesn't get much use these days, but I have no reason to replace it since it still works perfectly.  Heck, about a decade ago, when we had to replace the rest of our phones after our phone line took a lightning strike, it was still functioning perfectly.

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7, and that's still the case from my cell.

[bullmoose88]

10.  For everything.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

1, ever heard of speed dial?

[Tender Branson]

If you have it in the abbreviated dialing, then 1.

In Austria, for local mainline numbers it is either 4 digits (households) or 5 (companies).

If you are in the same town, you don't need a 5-digit prefix - just dial the 4 or 5 digits above.

Mobile phone numbers have a prefix (4 digits) and 7 or 8 digits after that.