Belarus began using its own country code +375 in 1995. Prior to that it was part of the +7 international country code. The local numbering plan was inherited from USSR and remains with little changes. Geographic area codes were designed based on previous 3-digit USSR area codes by removing the lead 0. Calling across areas still requires dialing trunk prefix 8 and waiting for dialtone after that. This pause was initially required by the analog trunk switches to identify the caller from PSTN for billing purposes. When calling within Belarus add 0 to the trunk prefix. This way dialing within the country is practically unchanged. In 2003 the abbreviated dialing within areas was replaced with a full 9-digit number + 2-digit trunk prefix. Previously it was possible to dial 82RRnn-nnn to reach a number in the same area. Now it is required to dial 80-AARRnn-nnn where AA is the area code, RR is the region code and nn-nnn is the local number. International calling remains unchanged: 8-10-xxx...xxxx where 8 is a trunk prefix, 10 is the international access code, xxx...xxxx are the digits of the destination country, areas and local number. Transition to new numbering plan Beltelecom began transition to the international numbering standard similar to the one adapted in many European countries in 2007. March 31, 2007 all short numbers were changed from 2 or 3 digits to 3 digits starting with 1. Beltelecom plans by 2010 to change trunk prefix to 0 from current 80 and international prefix to 00 from current 8-10.
All special numbers are dialed with a trunk prefix 8. 600 100 - Internet access billed on local phone bill 601 - Personal radio communications 604 - Network of Presidential Administration 602 - Audiotex services 606 100 1111 - Prepaid cardinternet service 800 - Toll-free Direct Call 801 - Toll-free directory services "Green number" 803 - Toll-free surveys 805 - Interactive platform services 810 - Toll surveys 820 - International toll-free service IFS 902 - Toll directory assistance
The top 4 numbers are available across areas. Following numbers may be valid for Minsk only and may not exist or have a different short number in other areas. Some of these numbers were formed by changing from old 2-digit codes to 3 by adding leading 1 or by replacing 0 with 1 in the old 3-digit code. 101 and 112 - Fire brigade 102 - Police 103 - Ambulance 104 - Gas leaks 105, 151, 155 - Railroad station 106 - National airport Minsk-2 107, 116 - Towing services 109 - Local toll directory assistance. Full number for dialing outside the local area it is 99-009-11 in the area centers. Regional directory assistance numbers follow patterns RR-22-222 or RR-21-222 or RR-55-222 where RR is the region code within the area. 114 - Bus station 107, 135, 152 - Taxi 150 - A1 call centre 153 - Area code directory 175 - Currency exchange rates 176 - Interactive platform services 177 - Infoservice 168 - Minsk information service 169 - Pharmacy inventory and directory 185 - Infoline 188 - Time service 191 - Films on show in theaters 192 - Night club directory 193 - 24 hour grocery store directory 194 - Horoscope 195 - Weather forecast 196 - Recorded fables 197 - Religious birthdays The following short numbers in Minsk and other areas were discontinued or replaced with full local numbers: 088 - Time service, changed to 188 067 - Taxi, changed to 135 069 - Pharmacy inventory, changed to 169 053 - Area code directory, changed to 153 Digital PSTN exchanges in Minsk utilizing Touch-Tone dialing support some additional codes: Flash - Three-way calling *69 - Call return
