Telephone numbers in Tuvalu and rebuilt in 2009. The telephone operator can be contacted on 20006 and the emergency services can be contacted on 911. Tuvalu has generated a lot of revenue from running adult entertainment lines via their country's dialing code (usually beginning with 62), however due to political and religious reasons they have decided to put a stop to this. 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
Telephone numbering plan subscriber trunk dialling (STD) codes. Depending on local dialing plans, they are often necessary only when dialed from outside the code area or from mobile phones. In North America ten-digit dialing is required in areas with overlay plans. The strict correlation of a telephone to a geographical area has been broken by technical advances, such as local number portability and Voice over IP service. When dialing a telephone number, the area code may be preceded by a trunk prefix (national access code), the international access code and country code. Area codes are often quoted by including the national access code.