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 modifications to the way British telephone numbers are written. As a consequence of these changes, many people were left with a misunderstanding of how the system of area codes and local numbers operates. A standard United Kingdom fixed telephone number (i.e. a landline, or geographical number, as opposed to a mobile telephone number or special rate non-geographic fixed line) is divided into three parts, the trunk prefix code (0 in the UK), an STD code (area code) followed by a local number. The STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling) code indicates the geographical area of the number, and is dialled before the