Pakistan ISD code is +92. This country has also its own area codes. It varies from two digits to five digits. Large town or cities have small prefix while small cities have longer prefix. The format should be +92-(STD)-(Phone Number).
The telephone numbers also varies from five digits to seven digits. Small cities got six digit numbers and large cities got seven digit numbers. Only Kashmir and Azam Jammu has five digit numbers. In this country all the mobile numbers are seven digits long. And the mobile operator code is four digits long.
Pakistan ISD Country Code = 0092
Dialing System = +Country Code + City or State or District Code + Phone Number
Telecommunication System in Pakistan
In the year of 1994 The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been established by the Telecommunication Ordinance. It also created the PTCL in the same year same time. PTCL is a state owned company. In 1990s there were less competition and for this reason the telephone call rate were very high. International call rate was higher. Etisalat International Pakistan bought 26% stake in PTCL in the year of 2006. It is a subsidiary of Emirates telecommunications Limited. In a survey of 2008 statistics showed that this country is more active in mobile sector rather than landline sector. The people of this country have sent over 151 billion text messages during 2009. It was the third highest sms trafficking in the world in the year of 2010. The users of fixed line company dropped from 5.2 million to 3.4 million in 2009-10.
Mobile Phone Operator Companies
The pioneers of mobile telecom sector in this country in 1990s were Instaphone and Paktel. Mobilink joined them in 2008 and finally they were sold to Orascom. The list of mobile operator companies are given here,
- Mobilink
- Telenor
- Zong
- Ufone
- Warid
- SCO
Islamabad is the capital of the country. It has also some more important cities and districts. They are, Balochistan, Punjab, Sindh, Karachi, Lahore etc. Area codes of different cities are different. Some neighboring countries of this country are.
- India (+91)
- Afghanistan (+92)
- Iran (+98)
- Bangladesh (+880)
- Tajikistan (+992)
- Nepal (+977)
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