Telephone numbers in Tuvalu Telephone numbers in Tuvalu Country Code: +688<br> International Call Prefix: 00 The local telephone numbers in Tuvalu are five digits long with no leading trunk zero to be omitted by international callers. The first two digits relate to the Tuvalu island in which is being called. The remaining three digits are for the local number, however when calling within the same island, all five digits must be dialled. Each of the nine atolls (districts) of Tuvalu has a dialing code, apart from Funafuti which has two. 90: Mobile (prepaid) WNP: The mobile network was destroyed in a storm in 2007,
National conventions for writing telephone numbers categories: Every number, except special service numbers, is an 8-digit number; they are grouped as XXXX YYYY. There are no area codes. The traditional convention for phone numbers is (0AA) NXX-XXXX, where 0AA is the area code and NXX-XXXX is the subscriber number. This number format is very similar to the North American numbering plan, however, the country has a trunk code of 0 instead of 1, so international callers (using +81) do not have to dial the trunk code when calling to Japan. Telephone numbers were nine digits long in Tokyo and Osaka until the late 1990s, when a