National Destination Code
The national destination code (NDC) is the area code prefix for Swiss telephone numbers. Within Switzerland the trunk code 0 must be dialed before the NDC, while it is not needed from international locations.
The closed numbering plan prescribes that subscribers are assigned telephone numbers of a standard length of nine digits. Two formats are distinguished: 2 digits for the NDC and 7 digits for the subscriber number, and 3 digits for the NDC and 6 digits for the subscriber number. A few exceptions exist as described in the following table.
The numbers are portable between numbering zones (ZN) or between GSM/UTMS mobile operators, and therefore an NDC does not imply that the subscriber is in a particular zone or that he uses a particular mobile operator.
The national destination codes are the following.
- 1 – ZN Zurich (until 1 April 2007, replaced by 44)
- 21 – ZN Lausanne
- 22 – ZN Geneva
- 24 – ZN Yverdon, Aigle
- 26 – ZN Fribourg
- 27 – ZN Sion
- 31 – ZN Bern and surrounding areas.
- 32 – ZN Biel/Bienne, Neuchâtel, Solothurn, Jura
- 33 – ZN Berner Oberland
- 34 – ZN Region Bern-Emme
- 41 – ZN Central Switzerland (Luzern etc.)
- 43 – ZN Zurich
- 44 – ZN Zurich (formerly 1)
- 51 – all of Switzerland
- 52 – ZN Winterthur
- 55 – ZN Rapperswil
- 56 – ZN Baden
- 58 – business telecommunication networks
- 61 – ZN Region Basel
- 62 – ZN Region Olten-Langenthal(Oberaargau)-Aargau-West
- 71 – ZN Region Eastern Switzerland (St. Gallen etc.)
- 74 – mobile services: paging services
- 76 – mobile services: GSM / UMTS - Sunrise (with Yallo, Cablecom, talktalk)
- 77 – mobile services: GSM / UMTS - various (M-Budget, Tele2)
- 78 – mobile services: GSM / UMTS - Orange (with CoopMobile)
- 79 – mobile services: GSM / UMTS - Swisscom
- 800 – freephone numbers
- 81 – ZN Chur
- 840 – shared-cost numbers
- 842 – shared-cost numbers
- 844 – shared-cost numbers
- 848 – shared-cost numbers
- 860 – voice mail access (+ 9 digits phone without the initial 0, i.e. +41 860 66 555 44 33 is the voice mail of +41 66 555 44 33)
- 868 – test numbers - Not accessible from abroad
- 869 – VPN access code ( + 3 - 10 digits)
- 878 – personal numbers (UPT)
- 900 – Premium rate service for business, marketing
- 901 – Premium rate service for entertainment,
- 906 – Premium rate service for adult entertainment
- 91 – ZN Bellinzona
- 98 – Inter-network routing numbers - Not accessible from abroad - Non diallable
- 99 – Internal network numbers - Not accessible from abroad - Non diallable
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