Telephone numbers in Australia

Country Code: +61
International Call Prefix: 0011
Trunk Prefix: 0

The Australian telephone numbering plan is how phone numbers work in Australia.  It has changed many times.  The most recent major change was between 1994 and 1998.Telecommunications Numbering Plan  –  1997  as amended 4th January, 2008

 Present numbering plan Overview 
Australia is divided geographically into four large area codes. The standard telephone number in Australia has ten digits.  The first digit is '0'.

The first digits are for the type of service. The following list is a high level of numbering plan presented in domestic format. Geographical region boundaries do not exactly follow state borders.

00 Emergency and International access
01 Alternative phone services:
014 –  Satellite phones
0151 –  Public safety service Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2025
0163 –  Pager numbers (defunct service; no longer available)
0198 –  Data numbers (e.g. 0198 308 888 is the dial-up PoP number for Telstra) 
02 Geographic: Central East region (NSW, ACT)
03 Geographic: South-east region (VIC, TAS)
04 Digital Mobile services (GSM, 4G and 5G)
05 Universal/Personal numberings
07 Geographic: North-east region (QLD)
08 Geographic: Central and West region (SA, NT, WA)
09 Internet of things service Telecommunications Numbering Plan 2025
1 Non-geographic numbers (mostly for domestic use only)

 Overview of plan between 1980s and 1994 
 00 TAS, toll-free, premium, satellite telephones
 01 AMPS mobile services
 02 Sydney
 03 Melbourne
 04 NSW regional areas less than 200 km away from Sydney
 05 VIC regional areas
 06 ACT, NSW regional areas more than 200 km away from Sydney
 07 QLD
 08 SA, NT
 09 WA

000 is the emergency telephone number in Australia.

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