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Telephone numbers in Spain

The Spanish telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of telephone numbers in Spain. It is regulated by CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones).

Country Code: 34
International Call Prefix: 00

Contents 1 History 2 International Number Lengths 3 Present Numbering Plan 3.1 Landlines 3.2 Mobile Phones 3.3 Personal Numbering 3.4 Other numbers 4 Telephone prefixes 5 References 6 External links

History

Spain changed to a closed numbering plan in 1998. Previously, the trunk prefix was '9', but this was incorporated into the subscriber's number, so that a nine-digit number was used for all calls, eg:

xxx xxxx         (within Madrid before 1998)
91 xxx xxxx      (within Spain, Madrid included, after 1998)
+34 1 xxx xxxx   (outside Spain before 1998)
+34 91x xxx xxx  (after 1998)

Mobiles similarly changed, prefixed with the digit '6':

909 xxx xxx     (within Spain before 1998)
+34 09 xxx xxx  (outside Spain before 1998)
+34 609 xxx xxx (after 1998)

New numbering ranges have also since been introduced:

10xx        Carrier selection codes
700 xxx xxx Personal numbering
8xx xxx xxx Geographic expansion
800 xxx xxx Freephone
900 xxx xxx Freephone
80x xxx xxx Shared cost
90x xxx xxx Shared cost

Spain's international access code also changed from 07 to 00, but this did not affect dialing arrangements for calls to Gibraltar, in which the provincial code 9567 was used instead of the international code 350, eg:

9567 xxxxx (Gibraltar from Spain)
+350 xxxxx (Gibraltar from all other countries)
+34 9567 xxxxx (Gibraltar via Spain)

This arrangement was discontinued on 10th February 2007 when Spain adopted the international 00350 prefix for all calls to Gibraltar. See Gibraltar telecom dispute.

International Number Lengths

Country code : +34

Minimum number length after International prefix : 3 digits (Most numbers, other than service numbers, are at least 9 digits.)

Maximum number length after International prefix : 9 digits

Present Numbering Plan

Country Code: 34

International Prefix: 00

There is no Long Distance Prefix in Spanish numbers. If you are trying to call 912345678, you must use that exact number from Spain, and +34912345678 from abroad.

Landlines

Spanish landline phone numbers total nine digits: a two or three-digit area code and a six or seven-digit phone number (e.g. 91 234 5678) beginning with the digit 9 (or sometimes 8) but excluding 90 and 80. Landline area codes follow a geographic numbering system.

Mobile Phones

Mobile phone numbers begin with 6, followed by 8 digits.

Personal Numbering

Personal numbers are used as redirection IDs. The owner of a personal number may request, for example, any call to its personal number to be redirected to any other number it wants.

Personal numbers begin with 70, followed by 7 digits.

Other numbers

• Numbers starting with 2, 3, 4, 5, 7X (X: numbers other than zero), and 99 are reserved.
• Numbers starting with 0 and 1 are used to compose short numbers or for prefixes.
• Numbers starting with 80 and 90 are used for premium rates, toll free, and internet access numbers. 803, 806, and 807 prefixes are used for premium rate calls, where the caller pays a fixed amount of money per minute. 905 numbers are supposed to be used for voting systems. Calls have a limited duration (typically 3 minutes), and are charged a fixed rate per call. They are often used in TV shows as a substitutive of 80 numbers, both for image reasons and because operators are not obliged to block them on a user request, as 80 numbers are ^[1]

Telephone prefixes

Spanish telephone dialling codes
National Destination Code	Max length	Min length	Category
0	3	3	Short Number
00	2	2	International Prefix
1	4	4	Short Number
103	6	4	Operator Selection
104	6	4	Operator Selection
105	6	4	Operator Selection
107	6	4	Operator Selection
112	3	3	Emergency Services
118	5	5	411 Service
6	9	9	Cell phones
70	9	9	Personal Numbering System
800	9	9	Toll Free
803	9	9	Premium Rate (adult services)
806	9	9	Premium Rate (entertaining service)
807	9	9	Premium Rate (professional servicies)
822	9	9	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province
824	9	9	Badajoz Province
828	9	9	Las Palmas Province
843	9	9	Guipúzcoa Province
848	9	9	Navarre Province
856	9	9	Cádiz Province
858	9	9	Granada Province
868	9	9	Murcia Province
871	9	9	Balearic Islands Province
872	9	9	Girona Province
873	9	9	Lleida Province
876	9	9	Zaragoza Province
877	9	9	Tarragona Province
881	9	9	A Coruña Province
886	9	9	Pontevedra Province
900	9	9	Toll Free
901	9	9	Shared-cost call
902	9	9	Fixed-cost call
905	9	9	Telephone Voting System
907	9	9	Premium Rate (data systems)
908	9	9	Internet Access
909	9	9	Internet Access
911	9	9	Madrid Province (Segovia and Guadalajara until 1993)
912	9	9	Madrid Province
913	9	9	Madrid Province
914	9	9	Madrid Province
915	9	9	Madrid Province
916	9	9	Madrid Province
917	9	9	Madrid Province
918	9	9	Madrid Province (Ávila until 1993)
920	9	9	Ávila Province
921	9	9	Segovia Province
922	9	9	Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province
923	9	9	Salamanca Province
924	9	9	Badajoz Province
925	9	9	Toledo Province
926	9	9	Ciudad Real Province
927	9	9	Cáceres Province
928	9	9	Las Palmas Province
931	9	9	Barcelona Province
932	9	9	Barcelona Province
933	9	9	Barcelona Province
934	9	9	Barcelona Province
935	9	9	Barcelona Province
936	9	9	Barcelona Province
937	9	9	Barcelona Province
938	9	9	Barcelona Province
940	9	9	Pager Services
941	9	9	La Rioja Province
942	9	9	Cantabria Province
943	9	9	Guipúzcoa Province
944	9	9	Vizcaya Province
945	9	9	Álava Province
946	9	9	Vizcaya Province
947	9	9	Burgos Province
948	9	9	Navarre Province
949	9	9	Guadalajara Province
950	9	9	Almería Province
951	9	9	Málaga Province
952	9	9	Málaga Province
953	9	9	Jaén Province
954	9	9	Seville Province
955	9	9	Seville Province
956	9	9	Cádiz Province
957	9	9	Córdoba Province
958	9	9	Granada Province
959	9	9	Huelva Province
960	9	9	Valencia Province
961	9	9	Valencia, Center of province
962	9	9	Valencia, South of province
963	9	9	Valencia City and surroundings
964	9	9	Castellón Province
965	9	9	Alicante Province
966	9	9	Alicante Province
967	9	9	Albacete Province
968	9	9	Murcia Province
969	9	9	Cuenca Province
971	9	9	Balearic Islands Province
972	9	9	Girona Province
973	9	9	Lleida Province
974	9	9	Huesca Province
975	9	9	Soria Province
976	9	9	Zaragoza Province
977	9	9	Tarragona Province
978	9	9	Teruel Province
979	9	9	Palencia Province
980	9	9	Zamora Province
981	9	9	A Coruña Province
982	9	9	Lugo Province
983	9	9	Valladolid Province
984	9	9	Asturias Province
985	9	9	Asturias Province
986	9	9	Pontevedra Province
987	9	9	León Province
988	9	9	Ourense Province

References

External links

• Spanish Numbering plan from CMT/Spanish Communications Regulator (Spanish)
• Operator codes assigned to each network - Due to portability it can change - Registration Needed
• Real Decreto 2296/2004, de 10 de diciembre (Spanish)
• Resolución de 30 de junio de 2005, de la Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información por la que se atribuyen recursos públicos de numeración al servicio telefónico fijo disponible al público y a los servicios vocales nómadas, y se adjudican determinados indicativos provinciales (Spanish)