Telephone numbers in Serbia are administered by Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RATEL), an independent regulatory authority. The
telephone country code of
Serbia
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is 381. The country has an open
telephone numbering plan, with most numbers consisting of a two- or three-digit area codes and six to seven digits for the subscriber number.
Overview
The
telephone country code of Serbia is 381.
Serbia and Montenegro
The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro or simply Serbia and Montenegro, known until 2003 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and commonly referred to as FR Yugoslavia (FRY) or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Southeast Europe locate ...
received this country code following the breakup of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...
in 1992, which used country code 38.
Montenegro
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switched to
382 after its independence in 2006.
An example for calling telephones in Belgrade, Serbia is as follows:
*xxx xx xx (telephone number in Serbia)
*011 xxx xx xx (house number in Belgrade)
*+381 xx xxx xx xx (outside Serbia)
For domestic calls (within the country), 0 must be dialled before the area code.
For calls from Serbia, the prefix for international calls was 99, but was changed to 00 on 1 April 2008, in accordance to the recommendations of the
International Telecommunication Union
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(ITU), and matching the majority of European countries. (e.g. for a
United States
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number 00 1 ... should be dialled).
Landline telephony
Area codes in Serbia have been largely unchanged since the time of
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...
. As
Socialist Republic of Serbia
The Socialist Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / " ...
had been assigned codes starting with 1, 2 and 3, they were simply carried over by Serbia after the breakup.
Area codes:
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Until 2013, Telekom Srbija had a monopoly on fixed telephony services. When the new regulation came in force, competition became allowed in this field as well, and other operators entered the market, using alternative communication infrastructure:
* Orion Telekom – over CDMA
* SBB – over coaxial cable (cable TV infrastructure)
* ]Yettel Serbia
Yettel Serbia (known as Telenor Serbia until 2022) is a Serbian mobile network operator, mobile, fixed telephony, fixed, internet service provider, internet and IPTV provider, owned by the Czech investment group PPF (company), PPF. It is headquart ...
– offering services only to business customers
Mobile telephony
There are three active mobile operators in Serbia (without Kosovo):
* Mobile Telephony of Serbia, styled as ''mts'' – subsidiary of Telekom Srbija
* Yettel Serbia
Yettel Serbia (known as Telenor Serbia until 2022) is a Serbian mobile network operator, mobile, fixed telephony, fixed, internet service provider, internet and IPTV provider, owned by the Czech investment group PPF (company), PPF. It is headquart ...
* A1 Serbia
and three virtual mobile operators:
* SBB
* Globaltel
* Vectone Mobile
The calling codes are assigned to the operators using the following scheme:
Calling codes in the table are assigned to new customers by the respective provider. However, since 2011 customers can change the operator and retain the old calling code (along with the rest of the phone number). Thus, calling codes do not necessarily reflect the operator. It is not possible, however, to transfer a mobile number to a land-based operator and vice versa.
Special codes
The following special telephone numbers are valid across the country:
In 2012, 2-digit emergency numbers were replaced by 3-digit ones (i.e. 192, 193 and 194 instead of 92, 93 and 94). This also applied to 976 (becoming 1976), 985 (becoming 1985), 987 (becoming 1987) and 9860 (becoming 19 860). 112 redirects to 192 on mobile phones.
Kosovo
The telephone country code for Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
is 383. This code is the property which it received by ITU through for the needs of the geographical region Kosovo as a result of the 2013 Brussels Agreement signed by the governments of Kosovo. Kosovo declared independence from in 2008, but retained country code 381 only for fixed-line telephony until 2016. Country code 383 was allocated on 15 December 2016.
Fixed-line telephony
Mobile telephony
See also
* Telecommunications in Serbia
* Country codes of Serbia
References
External links
Republic Telecommunication Agency (RATEL)
{{Telephone numbers in Europe
Telecommunications in Serbia
Telephone numbers
Serbia
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