Telephone Numbers in Romania - Present Day Telephone Codes

Present Day Telephone Codes

Due to what was seen as more affordable, landline usage started to drop as mobile phones market was growing fast. Mobile phone companies were running out of numbers, as both the main mobile companies claimed million after million of subscribers. Also, due to approaching EU join, the state-owned company was going to lose the landline monopoly. A 2002 reform modified the system to an 10 digits system, starting with the leading national access code 0 (which is dropped when calling from outside Romania and replaced with +40):

• the landline Romtelecom numbers gained a 2 in front of the area code (a Bucharest number became 021-xxx-xxxx and the other regions got numbers like 02pp-xxx-xxxx)
• the new landline companies were granted new area codes starting with 3, e.g. an Astral Telecom landline number will be 03pp-xxx-xxx, with the same 2-digit county code as Romtelecom (or the same 1 for Bucharest)
• the mobile companies got an extra digit in the area code by replacing the leading 9 with a company specific prefix like 72 for Connex (now Connex-Vodafone), 74 for Dialog (now Orange Romania) etc.; a Connex-Vodafone number will become 072p-xxx-xxx
• no-charge number area codes is 800 (like 0-800-xxx-xxx)
• extra-charge numbers are starting with 021-89, like a subset of the numbers owned by Romtelecom in Bucharest.

Most VoIP providers (SmartCall, TelefonIP) offer numbers bought from the wholesale service of Romtelecom. For charging and dialing reasons, these numbers appear to belong to Romtelecom to all other telephony providers.

Calling from Romania to Romania usually implies using the full 10 digits number. Short numbers for special services and for extra-charge SMS are invariable.

Romania joined the European initiative for a continent wide emergency number, 112, which replaced the 955 for Police, 961 for Ambulance and 981 for Firefighters.

The following are the national codes by county: