Telephone numbers in Norfolk Island Telephone numbers in Norfolk Island In Norfolk Island: Country code +672 was originally assigned to Portuguese Timor until annexed by Indonesia in 1975. It is also used for the Australian Antarctic Territory, whose numbers are in area code 1. The code was also used for Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands until October 1994 (encompassing area codes 2 and 4), when they were migrated to the +61 country code, under area code 091 (using exchange prefixes 62 for Christmas Island and 64 for the Cocos Islands). These numbers have since been migrated to 08 9162 and 08 9164 respectively.
UK telephone code misconceptions a one. This change makes about 200,000 new numbers available for each area code in which the change has been made. Some telephone service providers differentiate ordinary calling costs using the relevant area code(s). Until STD was introduced, only telephone operators could connect calls over the trunks (long distance links between major exchanges). A subscriber would have to dial 0 for the operator and then request a long distance call. As STD was introduced area by area the meaning of the 0 changed; it was now the trunk prefix used to raise a call automatically to the trunk dialling level,