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,
Long-distance calling completed on demand. Transatlantic International Direct Dialing between New York City (212 area code) and London (01 STD code) was introduced in 1970, with service extended to the whole of the USA and the 6 largest UK cities in 1971. Collect/Reverse Charge calling Various schemes were devised to allow large organisations to automatically accept collect calls, where the recipient pays long-distance charges for any call from a predefined area. A Zenith number in the late 1950s required an operator manually determine the destination number from a printed list; the 1967 Wide Area Telephone Service introduced the first automated toll-free telephone