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Telephone numbers in Tanzania

Tanzania (dark green)
Location
Country	Tanzania
Continent	Africa
Regulator	Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority
Access codes
Country code	+255
International access	000
Long-distance	0

The following are the telephone codes in Tanzania.

Format

• +255 XXX XXX XXX +255XX XXX XXXX calling from outside Tanzania
• 0XXX XXX XXX or 0XX XXX XXXX - calling within Tanzania

The NSN length is nine digits.

• Subscriber Number length under 2X, 4X, 6X and 7X NDCs is 7 digits.
• Subscriber Number length under 8XY and 90X NDCs is 6 digits.

Calls between Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda

Calls to Kenya and Uganda require a regional prefix rather than having to use full international dialling. To call Kenya from Tanzania, subscribers dial 005 instead of +254, while to call Uganda, they dial 006 rather instead of +256. To call Tanzania from Kenya and Uganda, subscribers dial 007 instead of +255.

Until 1999, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda shared a telephone numbering plan, in which subscribers were only required to dial the trunk code, area code and number. In that year, Tanzania adopted a new numbering plan.

Geographic number for fixed telephony services (area codes)

VoIP services

VoIP services begin with 41:

Non-geographic numbers for Corporate Networks

Non-geographic numbers for Corporate Networks start with 5.

Mobile telephone numbers

See also Telecommunications in Tanzania#Telephones

Mobile numbers start with 6 or 7:

Special and premium rate numbers

Non-geographic numbering begins 8 or 9:

Short codes

References

1. ^ "National Numbering Plan" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority. August 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
2. ^ "National Numbering Plans: Tanzania" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
3. ^ "National Numbering Plans: Tanzania" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
4. http://www.tcra.go.tz/images/documents/reports/National_Numbering_Plan_June_%202014.pdf

External links

• World Telephone Numbering Guide

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