Telephone numbers in Serbia are administered by Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RATEL), an independent regulatory authority.[1] The telephone country code of Serbia 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.
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 (ITU), and matching the majority of European countries.[3] (e.g. for a United States number 00 1 ... should be dialled).
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:
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).[4] 112 redirects to 192 on mobile phones.[5]
The telephone country code for Kosovo 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.[6][7] 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.[8][9]
↑ Novi pun naziv RATEL-a[New full title of RATEL] (in Serbian), RATEL, 1 July 2014, archived from the original on 20 April 2016, retrieved 14 July 2014
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