Telephone numbers in Italy

Country Code : +39
International Call Prefix: 00

Telephone numbers in Italy changed to a closed telephone numbering plan in 1998. The plan which had originally been advertised in early 1998 was to merge the trunk code '0' into subscribers' landline numbers effective June 19, 1998, and then to replace that leading '0' with a '4' starting from December 29, 2000. As a result of this change, all landline numbers would begin with a '4', and mobile phone numbers with a '3'. Other initial digits had been reserved for different special purposes. It was later decided that landline numbers should still begin with a '0', unlike in the closed numbering plans of many other countries. E.g. a land line number in Rome:

 06 xxxx xxxx (within Rome - after 1999)
 06 xxxx xxxx (within Italy)
 +39 06 xxxx xxxx (outside Italy - after 1998)

Calls to mobile phone numbers within Italy were also affected, deleting the previously used trunk code '0'. International calls to Italian mobile phone numbers were not affected. E.g. for former Omnitel, now Vodafone provider in Italy:

 0347 xxx xxxx (within Italy - before 1999)
 347 xxx xxxx (within Italy - after 1999)
 +39 347 xxx xxxx (outside Italy - both before and after 1999)

Landline numbers (area code+exchange+number) are generally 9 or 10 digits long, although they can be as little as 6 or as many as 11 digits. Mobile numbers are always 10 digits long, with the only exception of very old TIM numbers, which are 9 digits long (though those are now extremely rare).

[ Mobile Telephones

Mobile phone number in Italy: without a zero, started with a 3.

 3xx xxx xxxx (within Italy and San Marino)
 +39 3xx xxx xxxx (from the rest of the world)

[ San Marino

Until 1996, San Marino was part of the Italian numbering plan, using the Italian area code 0549 but in that year it adopted its own country code 378. However, instead of using international dialing codes, dialing arrangements between San Marino and Italy continued as before. In 1998, San Marino incorporated the 0549 area code into its subscribers' numbers, following the Italian format:

 0549 xxx xxx (San Marino from Italy)
 +378 0549 xxx xxx (San Marino from rest of the world)
 +39 0549 xxx xxx (San Marino via Italy)

[ Vatican City

Similarly, Vatican City is assigned country code 379. However, Vatican City is still reached via the Italian numbering plan. Telephone numbers in the Vatican City are similar to telephone numbers in Rome, with "698" following the "06" for Rome.

 06 698x xxxx (Vatican City from Italy)
 +39 06 698x xxxx (Vatican City from rest of the world)

 00- international access code (+)
 00800- toll free (international)
 0- geographical (local and national) phone numbers
 010- Genoa
 011- Turin
 0122- Sestrieres, Bardonecchia and other Susa Valley mountain resorts
 0125- Ivrea
 0131- Alessandria
 0141- Asti
 015- Biella
 0161- Vercelli
 0165- Aosta, Courmayeur
 0166- Cervinia
 0171- Cuneo
 0185- Tigullio
 0187- La Spezia and Cinque Terre
 019- Savona
 02- Milan
 030- Brescia
 031- Como
 0321- Novara
 0331- Varese
 0341- Lecco
 0342- Sondrio
 035- Bergamo
 0369- Mediaset Cologno Monzese and Segrate TV studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.)
 0376- Mantua
 0382- Pavia
 039- Monza
 040- Trieste
 041- Venice
 0425- Rovigo
 0432- Udine
 0444- Vicenza
 045- Verona
 0461- Trento
 0471- Bolzano
 0481- Gorizia
 049- Padua
 050- Pisa
 051- Bologna
 0522- Reggio nell'Emilia
 0523- Piacenza
 0532- Ferrara
 0541- Rimini
 0549- San Marino (Most Serene Republic of San Marino)
 055- Florence
 0573- Pistoia
 0577- Siena
 0586- Livorno
 059- Modena
 06- Rome (including State of Vatican City)
 070- Cagliari
 071- Ancona
 075- Perugia
 0769- RAI Saxa Rubra Studios, geographical rate (used for polls, television programs, etc.)
 0789- Olbia and Costa Smeralda
 079- Sassari
 080- Bari
 081- Naples
 0823- Caserta
 0824- Benevento
 0825- Avellino
 085- Pescara
 0865- Isernia
 0871- Chieti
 0872- Lanciano
 0873- Vasto
 0874- Campobasso
 0875- Termoli
 0881- Foggia
 089- Salerno
 090- Messina
 091- Palermo
 095- Catania
 0961- Catanzaro
 0965- Reggio di Calabria
 0971- Potenza
 099- Taranto

 0878- mass calls phone number (polls, television programs, etc.), max. 0.66€+0.23€/min

 1- Service and emergency numbers
 112 general emergency, police (Carabinieri)
 113 police (Polizia)
 115 fire (Vigili del Fuoco)
 117 Italian Customs/Financial/Border Police Guardia di Finanza
 118 ambulance
 12xx telephone number services
 144- premium rate, max. 0.07€+1.31€/min
 15xx other emergency and information services
 1515 fire, forest and environemental emergency (Corpo Forestale dello Stato)
 1518 road information service (CCISS)
 1530 on sea emergency and assistance, "blue" number (Capitaneria di Porto)
 166- premium rate, max. 0.07€+1.31€/min
 178- personal number, max. 0.15€+0.35€/min
 18- client services
 19- client services
 199- personal number, max. 0.12€+0.26€/min

 2- reserved for future purposes

 3xx- mobile phones
 4- internal phone net service numbers
 5- reserved for future purposes
 6- reserved for future purposes
 70x- internet access numbers
 7xx- internet service numbers
 8- special rate numbers
 80x- toll free (within Italy)
 84x- shared rate (information services), max. 0.10€+local rate/min
 89x- premium rate (informational and adult services)
 892- premium rate, max. 0.30€+1.50€/min
 9- reserved for future purposes

It is to be noted that this numbering plan doesn't strictly follow the boundaries of the provinces and city areas in order to solve in a simple way some technical constraints. So, for example, the geographical province of Avellino has two main prefixes (0825 and 0827) but also some common land with other prefixes like 0824 for San Martino Valle Caudina and 081 as for Baiano.

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