On February 1, 2004 Moldova introduced a new closed telephone numbering plan with an open dialing plan.[1] The country code is +373, adopted in 1993.[2] Previously, when Moldova was part of the Soviet Union, it used the country code +7 and the area code 0422.[3]
Numbering scheme
Telephone numbers in Moldova follow an open numbering plan and consist of 8 national significant numbers (NSN). The National Significant Number consists of 2-3 digits for the National Destination Code and 5-6 digits for the Subscriber Number (SN).
National destination code
National destination codes are allocated as follows:[4]
N(S)N Format
|
Assignment |
Number types
|
| 1XX |
Special service numbers |
|
| 2XX |
Fixed-line telephony |
Geographic
|
| 3XX
|
| 4XX |
Long-term strategic reserve |
|
| 5XX
|
| 6XX |
Mobile telephony |
Non-geographic
|
| 7XX
|
| 8XX |
Freephone and shared-cost services |
Non-geographic
|
| 9XX |
Premium services |
Non-geographic
|
The trunk prefix in Moldova is 0.
Area codes
Dialling example
- 071-xxx-xxxx – call within Chişinău
- 02xx-xxx-xxx – call between other localities in Moldova
- 0xxx-xxx-xxx – call between localities and mobile phone companies
- +373-0xxx-xxx-xxx – call between Moldova and Transnistria
