Telephone numbers in the Faroe Islands have used a closed numbering plan, with 6-digit subscriber numbers, since 1998.1st APRIL 1998 THE FAROE ISLAND, COUNTRY CODE 298, WILL CHANGE THE TELEPHONE NUMBER LENGTH FROM 5 TO 6 DIGITS Numbers are usually printed in three groups of two digits; for example, Tórshavn municipality's city hall has the telephone number 30 20 10.Tórshavnar kommuna home page

Unusually for countries in Europe, the International Telecommunication Union assigned to the Faroe Islands a country calling code beginning with the digit "2", usually allocated to countries in Africa.Blue Book, IXth Plenary Assembly, Melbourne, 14–25 November 1988, Volume 2, Issue 2, International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, International Telecommunication Union, 1989 page 132 At the time, all country codes beginning with "3" and "4", reserved for countries in Europe, were already in use.Red Book, VIIIth Plenary Assembly, Malaga-Torremolinos, 8–19 October 1984, Volume 6, Part 1, page 117 Originally, telephone numbers in the Faroe Islands could be reached using the country code for Denmark, +45, followed by the area code 42.Dänischer Export Kalender, Kraks legat., 1985, page 416

Calls to Denmark require the use of the international access code 00 and country code 45; previously, only the digit 0 was required before the subscriber's eight-digit number, with calls to the rest of the world using the international access code 009 and the country code.Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit, Deanna Swaney, Lonely Planet Publications, 1994, page 539

Allocations Number range Usage 12xx SMS/MMS short codes 19xx 20 xx xx Fixed Network 21 xx xx–29 xx xx GSM Mobile 3x xx xx Fixed Network 4x xx xx 5x xx xx GSM Mobile 6x xx xx Fixed Network (including VoIP) 70 xx xx Shared Cost Numbers 71 xx xx–79 xx xx GSM Mobile 80 xx xx Freephone numbers 81 xx xx–89 xx xx Fixed Network (including VoIP) 90 xx xx Premium rate numbers 91 xx xx–99 xx xx Mobile (reserved for 3G)

Special Numbers Number range Owner Usage 112 Faroese Telecom Neyðarkall / Emergency 114 Faroese Telecom Løgreglan / Police (non-emergency) 118 Faroese Telecom Nummarupplýsing / Number Information

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