Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea consist of mostly seven and some eight digit numbers (fixed), or eight digit numbers (mobile).
The international prefix for Papua New Guinea was changed from ‘05’ to ’00’ in 2010.
Landline
Other allocations
Mobile allocations
Older information
Broadly numbers are allocated to the following categories:
0xx(x) = operator services
180 xxxx = free call services
188 xxxx = local call services
2xx xxxx = satellite telephones
3xx xxxx = Port Moresby/Papua region
4xx xxxx = Lae/Morobe region
5xx xxxx = Mount Hagen/Highlands region
6xx xxxx = Daru/Fly region
69x xxxx = AMPS mobile (no longer in use) 68x xxxx = Mobile GSM 7xx xxxx = Goroka/Eastern Highlands region 8xx xxxx = Madang/Sepik region 9xx xxxx = New Guinea Islands region