Following the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, continued to share the 42 country code, until 1997, with the Czech Republic adopting 420 and Slovakia adopting 421.
Country Code: 420
On September 22, 2002, the Czech Republic adopted a closed numbering plan, with nine-digit numbers used for local and national calls, and the dropping of the trunk code 0.
Before the change, the following arrangements would have been made for calls to Brno:
Local call: xx xx xx xx National call: 05/xx xx xx xx International call: +420 5 xx xx xx xx
After the change, the dialing arrangements for calls to Brno were as follows:
Within Czech Republic: 5xx xxx xxx Outside Czech Republic: +420 5xx xxx xxx
In the case of mobile numbers, which had to be dialed in full, the only change was that the 0 was no longer used:
Within Czech Republic: 602 xxx xxx Outside Czech Republic: +420 602 xxx xxx
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Emergency calls
- Ambulance: 155 or 112
- Police: 158 or 112
- Fire brigade: 150 or 112
- Municipal police: usually 156 or 159 (not universally available)
These numbers are always toll-free.
Prefixes
The first 1-3 digits (after +420) of the telephone number indicates location or network. For mobile phones, since there is number portability, the mobile phone code only indicates the original operator. For example, when a person calls a number starting with 73 (T-mobile) but had been ported to another operator, a short voice message in Czech and English is played stating "you are calling out of a T-mobile network" before the ringing tone.
Geographical
| calling codes | region | former codes |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Prague | 02 |
| 31, 32 | Central Bohemian Region | |
| 35 | Karlovy Vary Region | 017 Karlovy Vary |
| 37 | Plzeň Region | 019 Plzeň |
| 38, 39 | South Bohemian Region | 038 České Budějovice |
| 41, 47 | Ústí nad Labem Region | 047 Ústí nad Labem |
| 46 | Pardubice Region | 040 Pardubice |
| 48 | Liberec Region | 048 Liberec |
| 49 | Hradec Králové Region | 049 Hradec Králové |
| 51, 53, 54 | South Moravian Region | 05 Brno |
| 55, 59 | Moravian-Silesian Region | 069 Ostrava |
| 56 | Vysočina Region | 066 Jihlava |
| 57 | Zlín Region | 067 Zlín |
| 58 | Olomouc Region | 068 Olomouc |
Mobile networks
- 601 - Telefónica O2 Czech Republic (formerly NMT, now CDMA system) (formerly named EuroTel)
- 602 - Telefónica O2 Czech Republic (GSM system)
- 603 - T-Mobile (formerly named Paegas/RadioMobil)
- 604 - T-Mobile
- 605 - T-Mobile
- 606 - Telefónica O2 Czech Republic
- 607 - Telefónica O2 Czech Republic
- 608 - Vodafone Czech Republic (formerly named Oskar)
- 72 - Telefónica O2 Czech Republic
- 73 - T-Mobile
- 77 - Vodafone Czech Republic
- 79 - U:Fon (Mobilkom)
- 91 - U:Fon fofr internet (Mobilkom)
Institutional networks
- 950 - Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
- 955 - Bank "Komerční banka (KB)", a part of the Société Générale (SG) international group, formerly government-controlled company
- 972 - Czech Railways
- 973 - Armed Forces
- 974 - Police
Special pricing
- 800 - toll free prefix
- 844 - local calls tariff regardless from what place within the Czech Republic you call (must be from land phones)
- 90 - higher tariff
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