The telephone has long become a common and popular means of communication. With the advent of mobile devices, there are new rules for dialing phone numbers that you need to know to make calls successfully.
You should dial the area code if you call a home phone in another city. It doesn't matter if you are calling from a cell phone or from your home. To find out the phone code of a particular city you need, use the phone book or enter the corresponding request into the search bar of your browser.
In addition, in some cases, dialing an area code is required to call any of the emergency services. It depends on the dialing rules of this kind entered by your network operator. For example, to call the ambulance service from a phone connected to the MTS network, you need to dial the following number: 8 (international prefix) - area code - 03 (ambulance phone) - 111.
You do not need to dial the area code if you are calling from your home phone to a mobile phone of a subscriber located anywhere in the world. Also, you do not need an area code even if you make a call from your home phone to the same home phone located within your city.
If you have any difficulty dialing phone numbers, contact the helpdesk operator of the network that serves you. Remember that you cannot call another city on your home phone without dialing an area code.
A good helper program for finding the desired phone numbers and codes of different cities is the telephone directory "2GIS". It has a detailed telephone base in different cities of Russia and many additional functions (various maps, contacts of organizations, etc.). 2GIS can be downloaded and installed on a computer or mobile phone, it supports Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. The guide can also be used online.
