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Number Format

Area Code:            1-2 digits (see note below)
Subscriber Number:    5-6 digits (see note below)
Trunk Prefix:         8, changing to 0
International Prefix: 00 (formerly 8 (wait) 10)
Area Code plus Subscriber Number will total 8 digits when national renumbering of 2001-2003 is completed.

Area code information

October 2003 - update on national numbering situation

Thanks to Tom Chadaravicius for the following report on Lithuania's numbering situation:

"The Lithuanian National Numbering plan change of 2001-2003 has been completed as of this time, October 15, 2003, with an exception of implementing '0' as trunk access: '8' still serves that purpose.

For international access, the permisive period ended January 1st, 2003, with '00' now being in place.

From the onset of the change to 8 digit National Plan, Vilnius proper was intended to change to 7 digit local numers, being assigned the only single digit area code '5'.

The rest of the country fixed line subscribers use 5 or 6 digit local numbers, thus making area codes 2 and 3 digit length (with the noted exception of Vilnius proper using single-digit area code '5'). The new plan does not foresee usage of fixed-lenght area codes.

There's a notable case about transitioning Vilnius' local numbers to 7 digit local plan. It pertains to local numbers that began with '2', e.g. '2x-xx-xx'. Those had been changed to '21x-xx-xx'.

All other local numbers in Vilnius simply were prepended with '2', thus converting an old 6-digit number 'xx-xx-xx' to '2xx-xxxx'. Therefore, dialing a Vilnius phone today from another country should be formulated as +370-5-XXX-XXXX. It is not excluded, and is rather very likely that the new 7-digit Vilnius local numbers will be assigned '3'+6 digits, '4'+6 digits and so on, a source at AB Lietuvos Telekomas ("Lithuanian Telecom") says."

1 September 2001 to 1 March 2003 - national renumbering

Lithuania began a change to its national numbering plan on 1 September 2001. Changes to fixed/wireline numbers were to be complete by 31 December 2002, and mobile number conversions were to be complete by 1 March 2003.

The end result was national numbers which total 8 digits length (3-digit area codes with 5-digit subscriber numbers, or perhaps 2-digit area codes with 6-digit subscriber numbers - whether area code lengths will be a constant 3-digit length is unclear). However, the plan is not a closed plan, so that local calls can be completed with the subscriber number alone, without need to include the area code into the dialled number.

The numbering changes were being phased in according to region and type of service at various dates during the renumbering period.

Summary of new format

In keeping with format changes elsewhere, the leading digit of the national area code signifies type of service as follows:

+370 2: reserved as of 1 March 2003 - unspecified
+370 3: fixed/geographic
+370 4: fixed/geographic
+370 5: fixed/geographic
+370 6: mobile
+370 7: personal/universal number
+370 8: freephone, special rate
+370 9: premium rate

Prefixes

The national trunk prefix will become '0' at an unknown date. The international trunk prefix became '00' on 1 January 2003. Short codes were to be standardised to a 1xx or 1xxx format.

Geographic area code changes

The following indicates the conversion of the initial digits of the national numbers. The Old two initial digits were to be replaced with the New three initial digits. Note in some cases that the initial digits could include the initial digit of the subscriber number. Kaunas (+370 7) and Vilnius (old +370 2) may change to +370 37 and +370 52 respectively. Note that subscriber number may also change - a 1 March 2002 change indicates +370 22 for Vilnius would change to +370 521.

1 March 2002 - 1 May 2002: 1st phase geographic changes

Permissive (Old and New) 1 March 2002, mandatory (New) 1 May 2002, with digits as would follow +370 country code:

Place         Old       New
=====         ===       ===
Birzai        +370 20   +370 450
Elektrenai    +370 38   +370 528
Jonava        +370 19   +370 349
Kaisiadorys   +370 56   +370 346
Kaunas        +370 7x   +370 37x
Kedainiai     +370 57   +370 347
Kupiskis      +370 31   +370 459
Marijampole   +370 43   +370 343
Panevezys     +370 54   +370 454
Panevezys     +370 55   +370 455
Pasvalys      +370 71   +370 451
Rokiskis      +370 78   +370 458
Sakiai        +370 47   +370 345
Silute        +370 41   +370 441
Taurage       +370 46   +370 446
Trakai        +370 38   +370 528
Ukmerge       +370 11   +370 340
Vilkaviskis   +370 42   +370 342
Vilnius       +370 22   +370 521

1 March 2002 - 1 September 2002: 2nd phase mobile code changes

The existing mobile area codes (+370 79 through +370 89, +370 98 and +370 99) were changed to the new format by prepending the digit '6' before the existing mobile area code. Mobile number changes began permissive operation 1 March 2002 (both old and new formats may be used). Mobile changes were mandatory 1 September 2002.

Mobile carrier  Old format     New format
==============  ==========     ==========
Nelt (Paging)   +370 79 xxxxx  +370 679 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 80 xxxxx  +370 680 xxxxx
Bit (GSM)       +370 81 xxxxx  +370 681 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 82 xxxxx  +370 682 xxxxx
Tele2 (GSM)     +370 83 xxxxx  +370 683 xxxxx
Tele2 (GSM)     +370 84 xxxxx  +370 684 xxxxx
Bit (GSM)       +370 85 xxxxx  +370 685 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 86 xxxxx  +370 686 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 87 xxxxx  +370 687 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 88 xxxxx  +370 688 xxxxx
Bit (GSM)       +370 89 xxxxx  +370 689 xxxxx
Omnitel (GSM)   +370 98 xxxxx  +370 698 xxxxx
Bit (GSM)       +370 99 xxxxx  +370 699 xxxxx

1 September 2002 - 1 November 2002: 3rd phase geographic changes

Permissive (Old and New) 1 September 2002, mandatory (New) 1 November 2002:

Place         Old       New
=====         ===       ===
Akmene        +370 95   +370 425
Alytus        +370 35   +370 315
Anyksciai     +370 51   +370 381
Birstonas     +370 10   +370 319
Druskininkai  +370 33   +370 313
Ignalina      +370 29   +370 386
Joniskis      +370 96   +370 426
Jurbarkas     +370 48   +370 447
Kelme         +370 97   +370 427
Klaipeda      +370 62   +370 462
Klaipeda      +370 63   +370 463
Klaipeda      +370 64   +370 464
Kretinga      +370 58   +370 445
Mazeikiai     +370 93   +370 443
Moletai       +370 30   +370 383
Neringa       +370 59   +370 469
Pakruojis     +370 91   +370 421
Palanga       +370 36   +370 460
Plunge        +370 18   +370 448
Prienai       +370 49   +370 319
Radviliskis   +370 92   +370 422
Raseiniai     +370 28   +370 428
Skuodas       +370 16   +370 440
Salcininkai   +370 50   +370 380
Siauliai      +370 13   +370 413
Siauliai      +370 14   +370 414
Siauliai      +370 15   +370 415
Silale        +370 69   +370 449
Sirvintos     +370 32   +370 382
Svencionys    +370 17   +370 387
Telsiai       +370 94   +370 444
Utena         +370 39   +370 389
Varena        +370 60   +370 310
Vilnius       +370 23   +370 523
Vilnius       +370 24   +370 524
Vilnius       +370 25   +370 525
Vilnius       +370 26   +370 526
Vilnius       +370 27   +370 527
Visaginas     +370 66   +370 386
Zarasai       +370 70   +370 385

1 October 2002 - 1 December 2002: 4th phase Lazdijai changes

Permissive (Old and New) 1 October 2002, mandatory (New) 1 December 2002:

Place         Old       New
=====         ===       ===
Lazdijai      +370 68   +370 318

Sources

Official information from telecom regulator Rysiu reguliavimo tarnyba (RRT) at: http://www.rrt.lt/english/numbering.htm.

RRT announcement (30 August 2001, via ITU)

From www.radio.lt, a report on the 2001-2003 telephone numbering change.

Other Information

Regulator is Rysiu reguliavimo tarnyba (RRT).

Withdrew from country code +7 (former USSR territory) at an unknown time; ITU assigned country code +370 in January 1993. +7 012 was replaced by +370 in international dialling. Recent reports suggest a restructuring to provide a constant 7-digit total of area code and local number (1-digit area + 6-digit local, or 2-digit area + 5-digit local).

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