The federal mobile phone number contains so many digits that most do not even try to remember them. Yes, and today it is completely useless. Any mobile phone has its own phone book, in which you can store not only information about the number, but also the data of its owner. True, familiar people do not always call. Peering into this set of numbers, one often wants to understand at least what region the mobile number belongs to. Such information will avoid unnecessary expenses, and not only.
A bit of history
But first, it is desirable to understand, but generally why a cell number has such a number of digits, in contrast to a city number, in which there are usually no more than 7. The fact is that when dialing a number tied to a specific place, only the so-called “closed plan” is enough . But for a cell phone, which can be anywhere in the world, this option is not suitable.
In addition, the first mobile operators were faced with the fact that most of the available short (city) numbering already belonged to large monopolistic telephone companies. Their redemption from them often cost a very round sum, as a result of which all these costs fell on the shoulders of subscribers. The emergence of an open dial plan or DEF codes was a way out of this situation. In those years, even the advertising slogan appeared: "Long number - short account." True, it was more difficult for subscribers to remember it, and it also became difficult to recognize the region by mobile phone number.
How is a cell number formed?
Indeed, at first glance it seems that 11 digits of a mobile phone is nothing more than a random set. But this is only for those who have never heard of the rules for the formation of telephone numbers. The rest is not only easy to find out the region by mobile phone number, but also to determine the mobile operator, and the country from which the call came. It’s just that all of this information is encrypted so that cellular companies and other telecom operators can correctly carry out charging.
Most often, the cellular number in Russia has the following form:
+ 79XX-XXXX-XXXX, where
- 7 is the code of the Russian Federation;
- 9XX - code of the mobile operator;
- - region code;
- XXXX are simply numbers that distinguish one number from another.
So, for example, the number + 7927-123-4567 is registered in the Saratov region with the mobile operator MegaFon and, of course, in Russia.
Codes of other countries
But what if the number you are calling starts on a different number? Most likely, the call came from another country. After all, each state has its own international code. It can contain from one to three digits. So, for the USA and Canada it is “1”, for Ukraine - 380, and for Belarus - 375. Often it depends on the size of the country, and therefore the number of available subscriber numbers.
All other numbers, as well as in the case of Russian numbers, help to find out the region by mobile phone number. True, in most cases, for international calls, such information is redundant. The fact is that the cost will not change in any way from this, which means that for the majority there is no need to clarify such information. Unless you need to understand whether familiar people really called or just someone made the wrong number. In this case, you can clarify the information in the long-distance information.
Codes of mobile operators
In Russia, after +7 or 8 (for internal calls) for
city numbers, the next 3 or 4 (less often 5) digits determine the city code. So, for Moscow it will be 495 or 499, and for Samara - 846. And in the case of cell phones, 6 digits after the country code perform the same function. Knowing only them, you can determine the region by mobile number. True, to do this, simply looking at the existing number of numbers, unfortunately, will not work. You need to have a DEF code table on hand.
To the delight of most subscribers, this information is not a secret, and it can be found without much difficulty. The easiest way is to contact the help of your mobile operator. But first, it is desirable to understand what kind of mobile services this subscriber uses. And 3 digits are already more than enough to clarify such information. For convenience, this information is given in the table (for the "Big Three").
| Mobile operator | Telephone code |
| MegaFon OJSC | 920-929, 937 |
| Beeline OJSC | 903, 905, 906, 909, 967 |
| MTS OJSC | 910-919, 987 |
It is worth noting that there are also local cellular companies that will already have their own codes. But they work mainly only in the territory of one or two regions. And, of course, they do not have such an extensive numbering.
All ways to find out the region code of a cell phone.
The easiest way to do this is by contacting the help desk operator. It will be enough to dictate the first digits of the number, and the specialist will immediately report the information of interest. But, unfortunately, sometimes waiting for his answer is simply impossible. It seems to be easier to call an existing number. Those who have a computer at hand can use the free service on the MTT website. Here you can not only find out the region by mobile phone number, but also what other numbering belongs to the same operator. And also this service provides free information on international and long-distance codes.
It is worth noting that for smartphones you can download special applications that can provide similar information even without Internet access. There are paid and free offers. But having such a program, you can always easily find out in which region the cell number is registered.