Telephone numbers in Mexico
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Telephone numbers in Mexico are regulated by the Federal Telecommunications Institute, an independent government agency of Mexico. The agency published the Fundamental Technical Plan for Numbering (Spanish: Plan Técnico Fundamental de Numeración) on May 11, 2013. The plan establishes a uniform ten-digit telephone number format. It took effect on August 3, 2019.
Telephone number format
All telephone numbers in Mexico have ten digits, of which the first identifies one of the eight principal geographic regions of the country.
The national number is formed by prefixing the previously existing local number format with an area code. All ten digits must be dialed for all calls.
Dialing prefixes
Since August 3, 2019, only the following dialing prefixes are available for use within Mexico:
Dialing into Mexico
Destinations in Mexico are dialed from foreign location by dialing the foreign country's International access code (011 within the NANP area, 00 in many other countries), the country code 52, and the ten-digit national telephone number of the destination. As of 2020, the dialing procedure for mobile phones in Mexico no longer requires the inclusion of the number '1' after the country code. The procedure for calling landlines remains unchanged.
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