Irish telephone numbering plan

Numbers on the Irish Telephone Numbering Plan are regulated and assigned to operators by Comreg. The numbers are assigned as follows:

Geographically assigned

01 - Dublin area - also extends to certain parts of Wicklow, Meath and Kildare.
021-029 - Southern area; Cork, Fermoy etc
0402 - Arklow.
0404 - Wicklow.
041-047,049 - East and Midlands area.
048 - Northern Ireland landline access (004428 also works but may be more expensive).
057 Midlands area.
060 is free; the rest of the 06 range is assigned to the South West Area.
071,074 - North West Area.
090-099 - Midlands and Western Area.

Mobile services

083 - 3 Ireland
085 - Meteor
086 - O2 Ireland (formerly Esat Digifone)
087 - Vodafone Ireland (Eircell until 2002; part of state-owned Telecom Éireann until 1997)
088 - Digiweb 4G mobile ^[1] (prefix formerly used between 1985 and July 2001 ^[2] by Eircell's analogue mobile phone service, using TACS).
089 - Will be used later this year by the new MVNO run by Tesco Ireland

Note: Mobile Number Portability has been in operation since the early 2000s, so it is possible for the prefixes to be interchanged between the operators.

Unused

Defunct

03 - Reserved (Formerly used for Great Britain and premium rate services).
16 - Old international prefix (no longer in use)

Reserved

07 - all except 0707, 0700 and 076 are reserved without assigned purpose.
- 0707 - Reserved for personal numbering.
0800 - Reserved (+353 800 is international freefone).

Special numbers

00 - International Access.
020 91x xxxx - Drama use (although the rest of the 020 area code is free).
0700 - Personal Numbering.
076 - VoIP services.
080 - Mailbox for landline users (Formerly NI access code).
0818 - Universal Access (similar to personal numbering).
10 - Operator
112 - Emergency Services
114 - International Operator
118xx - Directory Enquiries
1191 - Speaking Clock
13xx - Carrier preselection (Third party long distance, international and internet services)
141 - Caller ID withheld
142 - Caller ID present

Special charge services prefixes

15xx - Premium Rate
1800 - Freephone (Saorghlao)
1850 - CallSave (Glao sábhála) (per call charge)
1890 - Lo Call (Lóghlao) (local rate access)
1891 - Low Cost Internet Access
1892 - Local rate Internet Access
1893 - Variable Cost Internet Access

External links

Citations

[1] Digiweb Mobile takes 088, Press Release (05/04/2007)
[2] Irish Examiner "After 16 years it's almost all over for Eircell's analogue network" (10/05/2001)

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