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Up-to-date
phone codes and explanations are to be found at: kropla.com/dialcode.htm
or
How
to call abroad
wikipediala's
list_of_country_calling_codes
Kropla.com
also has an excellent explanation of mobile phone
systems.
If
you have someone in a major country who wants to call
you a lot, while you are stationed in one country in
the Caribbean, there is a phone card they can buy that
might be helpful (does not work the other way round)
It is called Enjoy
Prepaid. It is cheaper when used to fixed
phones.
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Thanks to John Guy who started the
research for this page
Phones
and phone codes
Much
of the Eastern Caribbean falls into the North
America Numbering Plan (NANP). The country code
for all NANP countries is 1 and the numbers that
follow work just like area codes in the U.S. and
Canada. These countries and their country codes are as
follows:
USA
1 + areacode
Anguilla 1-(264)
Antigua 1-(268)
Barbados 1-(246)
Dominica 1-(767)
Grenada 1-(473)
Montserrat 1-(664)
St. Lucia 1-(758)
St. Vincent 1-(784)
St. Kitts 1-(869)
Trinidad 1-(868)
Sint Maarten 1-(721)
St Maarten is planning to join the NANP around
September 2011 untill then see below
This
does not apply to the French Islands.
Of these there are basically two: Martinique
and Guadeloupe,
which includes St
Barts and St
Martin. Let us take
Guadeloupe, St Barts and St Martin first. All their
phone numbers begin with 0590 (regular phones) or 0690
(cell phones) this is followed by a 6 more digits. eg:
0590-71-92-92. Within any French territory this is
what you dial.
When
dialing from overseas, the country code for Guadeloupe
is also 590. So if you are dialing from abroad you
first dial the exit code for that country (in the USA
011) then you dial the country code 590, then you dial
the number, but you leave off the first 0. Thus to get
the same number from the USA we showed before, you
would dial 011-590-590-71-92-92. If it was a cell
phone you would dial: 011-590-690-71-92-92
Martinique
is the same, except the country code is 596 and the
phone numbers start either 0596 (regular) or 0696
(cell). So to give the same example - within
French territory 0596-71-92-92. From abroad exit code
plus 596-596-71-92-92
That
leaves the Saba,
Statia and Sint Maarten
all their number begin with 599 followed by 7 digits.
When you dial from overseas you dial the exit code
plus this number. If dialing within the Dutch Antilles
you leave off the 599 and dial 0 instead. Sint Maarten
is planning on coming over the NANP like the USA. When
this happens both dialing codes will work for about a
year.
hits since 07/03
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