Our neighbors Argentines are quite complicated when it comes to defining how to make their phone numbers. In this post I will try to explain how the hell a phone call to Argentina and not die trying.
People usually gives his phone number to other people, teaching as it is used to mark, or mark as locally. The Argentines, like the rest of the civilized world, allocated to provinces and cities in an area code. Thus, people usually give their number and area code + phone number.
Ex: (11) 55898900 is a number of Buenos Aires (code of area 11, enclosed in parentheses to distinguish the number.)
But ... What if the number is a cell? (Or "Movicom", speaking in Argentina).
Well, the phones in Argentina also have an area code of city, so there may be cell Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Cordoba, etc. To distinguish them from fixed network numbers, to call a cell must dial 15 to mobile number. If called from a city with different area code, you have to make a long distance call, so you have to dial 0 and the city code. An example is better ...
Eg Cellular Buenos
Aires: (11) 60989900
If I want to call from landline in Buenos Aires in this cell I dial: 15 60989900
If you want to call from landline phone in Mendoza that I dial: 011 15 6098 9900
As you see, is complicating the matter is ... but as people in Argentina calls to cell phones every day in different cities, and is hardly a problem for them. But what happens when giving the number to their relatives abroad? For
happens that gives the number of people the way you are used to mark ... either 15 60989900 or 011 15 6098 9900 ... and they work it out, if the end of the day is to call a phone number ... can not be so hard ...
But it is, and that to further complicate things, not just the country code prefix to the number they gave us, but we have to process it a bit.
If the landline number outside, enough to make
international exit code, country code, city code and telephone number
For example: +54 11 55898900 for a landline call in Buenos Aires (the + is used to represent the international exit code).
So how do we mark the cell if they gave us this number 011 15 6098 9900?
a) +54 011 15 6098 9900
b) +54 11 15 60989900
c) +54 15 60989900
d) all of the above
e) none of the above
The answer is ...
e) none of the above
to call this phone number 011 15 6098 9900 in Argentina, dial ...
+54 9 11 60989900
And where was the 15?? The 15 is not marked when calling from abroad, but instead, we must add a 9 after the country code and city code before. That way it tells the network you are calling a number in the mobile network.
So now you know ... if given a mobile number in Argentina, change the 15 for a 9 and marquenlo before the area code and not after.
that for now ...
Ahhh ... and how to call a cell phone in Chile?
For a much simpler way. In Chile, the phones have their own area code (09), so no need to worry about whether it belongs to a certain city.
If they say the phone is 88230000, then you just have to dial from phone +56 9 88230000 or 88230000 and if you are calling from landline 09 88230000. Eye phones in Chile has 8 digits! (9xxx xxxx xxxx 8xxx, 7xxx xxxx, etc.)
