phone numbers

I am confused about phone numbers that begin with 9. A post from another forum said that cell phone numbers begin with 7 or 8 and that a 9 must be dialed before these. All other numbers are fixed line numbers. However I notice many kines post cell numbers that do not start with a 7 or 8. What is correct?

 

My friend and co-moderator RT Gooch called my attention to some girl ads showing 8-digits telephone numbers starting with "8".

It turns out that those are cellphone numbers. Due to the growth they have opened the 8... series for use with cellphones.

The rule is, now; in Lima, fixed phones have 7-digit numbers, cellular phones have 8-digit numbers (starting with 9 or with 8). In both cases, area code for calls from outside Lima is (01). If you are calling from a Movistar cellphone to another Movistar cellphone, the area code is 0nly (1), without the (0).

Outside Lima, fixed phones have 6-digit numbers, cellular phones have 7-digit numbers (starting with 9 o with 8). In both cases, area code is a 2-digit number preceded by a (0). Again, if you are calling from a Movistar cellphone to another Movistar cellphone, the area code is 0nly the 2-digit number, without the (0).

If calling from outside Peru, the country code is (51) and the area code is (1) for Lima, or a 2-digit number for provinces.

Confusing? Yes, a little, but you can ask here for help is you have any trouble

 

I don't mean to make this more confusing than it already is, but here we go. If you rent a Movistar cellphone, the new models require you to dial the digit "9" before the actual number you want to call. Hence, you would have to add that digit to all the descriptions above.


Good luck,



Gunslinger

 

Being a local, I've never rented a cellphone. But I have changed my daughter's Movistar for a new state-of-the-art model last week and she hasn't had that problem, she just makes her calls as always.
Could it be that you are a little confused by the fact that all cellphone numbers in Peru have one more digit than regular phones, that being ussually a "9" as first digit?
Anyone having any more inputs on this particular?

 

Nope,

I'm a local too. It's just that the last group of cellphones we have upgraded in our company come with this feature. Maybe it's the fact that we are subscribed to Movistar's RPM service (Red Privada Movistar). Any call we want to make outside the RPM (including Movistar cellphones) has to be preceeded by a "9".

Sorry if I unnecessarily confused the foreing fellow mongers.

Please feel free to edit or erase my comment, if you consider it does more harm than good.


Regards,


Gunslinger

 

It is obviously, then, a feature of the RPM service. (RPM = Red Privada Movistar = Movistar Private Network).

It is, of course, very unlikely that any visitor ended up using RPM (unless he came to work for a Peruvian corporation) but I don't think we should delete the posts nor discard the info. Every single bit of knowledge is desirable and welcome.

 

...or beter yet, let's throw all politicians and telephone companies' principals.

As published in newspapers today, starting next April 5th, all cellular phones in Peru will have 9-digit numbers. This is the article published in Trome:

Translated text:

Talk about confusing...