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Updated 22 December 2004

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Burma / Myanmar

+95

Number Format

Area Code:            1-2 digits
Subscriber Number:    5-6 digits (see note below)
Trunk Prefix:         ?
International Prefix: 00 (formerly 0?)

Subscriber Number: 6 digits (Rangoon/Yangon); 5 digits elsewhere? (full details unknown)

Area code information

5 November 2000 - mobile numbering change

Mobile subscriber numbers were expanded from 5 to 7 digits, permissive as of 5 November 2000, mandatory after 6 May 2001. Mobile subscriber numbers are in area code +95 9. A 2-digit prefix was prepended to existing 5-digit mobile subscriber numbers as follows:

Place             Old Numbers  New Numbers
=====             ===========  ===========
Yangon (Rangoon)  2xxxx        99 2xxxx
Yangon (Rangoon)  3xxxx        80 3xxxx
Mandalay          6xxxx        90 6xxxx
Mandalay          7xxxx        69 7xxxx

Reference: MPT notice (via ITU).

Other Information

National telecom carrier is MPT

The main city of Rangoon (Yangon) recently changed its local telephone numbers to a 6-digit format.

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