Telephone numbers in Ukraine
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Country Code: 380
International Call Prefix: 8~10 (until 14 October 2009) International Call Prefix: 0~0 (as of 14 October 2009)
[edit] New Dialling Plan
As of 14 October 2009, Ukraine will switch to the dialling conventions common in the European Union[1].
In order to call abroad, user would need to dial 0~0 before the country code instead of 8~10. For instance, to call Vancouver, Canada, from Kyiv(Kiev), users would need to dial 0~0 1 778 XXX XX XX.
Calling nationwide would not require an 8: users would need to dial a 0~ and then the region code followed by the local number. For instance to call Kyiv(Kiev) from Odesa, users would need to dial 0~44 XXX XX XX. Same convention will be adopted for mobile operators.
For local calls, users would still be able to dial the local number without a 0 and the area code.
These changes will not affect dialling Ukrainian subscribers from abroad with the exception for calling landline subscribers in the Kyiv(Kiev)region (outside the city of Kyiv(Kiev)limits). Currently, Kyiv(Kiev) region uses the same area code as the city of Kyiv(Kiev)(044). However, as of October 2009, the region will get its own area code of 45, while the city will retain 44.
[edit] Current Dialling Plan
Ukraine (similarly to most of ex-Soviet Union countries) employs a four-level (local, zone, country, international) open dialing plan. For all non-local numbers, the required trunk prefix is '8' followed by an auxiliary dial tone after it (optional on digital exchanges), with the following '2' for in-zone calls, '0' for in-country calls to geographical and cell phone zones, none to toll-free, premium-rate and other special zones (e.g. 800, 900, 703, 711), and '10' for international calls.
The in-country sequence for ordinary zones consists of a 2 digit zone code, an optional subzone code (never used for the capital of the geographic region corresponding to a phone zone), an optional filler (0 to 2 "2"s, used to make the whole in-country sequence contain exactly 9 digits) and the local phone number (5 to 7 digits). Mainly for historical reasons, zone codes are very often named with a leading '0', e.g. 044 instead of 44. When dialing from cell phones, the in-country dial sequence (with 8~0xx prefix) is used even for phones of the same provider. Otherwise a call may be placed in the nearest geographic area.
Geographical zones correspond to geographic regions ("oblasti") with exception of Sevastopol which utilizes its own phone zone.
Cell phone numbers can be assigned both within the cell phone provider zone and within a geographic zone. The latter arrangement is used mainly for CDMA phones and for GSM operators selling their connectivity within one city, like GoldenTelecom GSM. Allocation of new GSM cell phone numbers within a geographic zone is very rare now because law requires all incoming calls to be free, including incoming calls to a cell phone.
Some examples of dialed sequences:
xxx-xx-xx (two PSTN phones within [[Kyiv(Kiev)], local number is 7 digits long) x-xx-xx (two PSTN phones inside Brovary, city in Kyiv(Kiev) phone zone, local number is 5 digits long) 8~294 x-xx-xx (from Kyiv(Kiev) fixed line to Brovary PSTN phone, the same zone, different subzone; subzone code is 94) 8~2 xxx-xx-xx (from Brovary fixed line to Kyiv(Kiev) PSTN phone, the same zone, different subzone, empty subzone code) 8~050 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to UMC, cell phone provider) 8~067 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to Kyivstar, cell phone provider) 8~800 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to toll-free number) 8~044 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside Kyiv(Kiev) phone zone to Kiev) 8~044 94x-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside of Kyiv(Kiev) phone zone to Brovary) 8~046 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile nor roaming or PSTN phone outside of Chernihiv phone zone to Chernihiv) 8~032 2xx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile nor roaming or PSTN phone outside of Lviv phone zone to Lviv; the local number is 6 digits long, so "2" is used as a filler to make the whole in-country dial sequence 9 digits long) 8~10 ... (mobile or fixed international call from Ukraine) +380 44 xxx-xx-xx (international call to Kyiv(Kiev) zone or Kyiv(Kiev) itself) +380 44 94x-xx-xx (international call to Brovary) +380 48 xxx-xx-xx (international call to Odessa) +380 48 2xx-xx-xx (international call to 6-digits numbers of Odessa) +380 32 xxx-xx-xx (international call to Lviv) +380 32 2xx-xx-xx (international call to 6-digits numbers of Lviv) +380 50 xxx-xx-xx (international call to UMC) +380 67 xxx-xx-xx (international call to Kyivstar) +380 63 xxx-xx-xx (international call to life)
(In the table, tilde sign ('~') means waiting for secondary dial tone.)
Some mobile operators may support additional dialing plans. For example, Kyivstar also supports the following:
xxx-xx-xx (local number at current location of KyivStar mobile - i.e. if the
mobile is currently in Kyiv(Kiev) this will represent a Kyiv(Kiev) number)
67-xxx-xx-xx (call from KyivStar subscriber to KyivStar subscriber)
Note that law explicitly prohibits trunk calls to a PSTN phone within the same local area in a geographic phone zone (e.g. from Kiev to Kyiv(Kiev)), so one cannot dial 8~2 or 8~0xx for this, unless the phone exchange is misconfigured or a special circumstance occurs.
