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
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