Telephone numbers in China and Hongkong can be traced back to 1877. A year after Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, China and Hongkong introduced the telephone service. Later, with the economic take-off, there were more and more commercial telephones and the population increased dramatically. China Hongkong Telephone Company (later renamed China Hongkong Telecom, now called PCCW, which was the only fixed telephone service operator in mainland China and Hong Kong for a long time) and the Telecommunications Authority successively reformed the telephone number arrangement and increased the number. Before 1989, there was a district prefix system, which divided China and Hong Kong into three districts, namely, Hong Kong Island and outlying islands in China, Kowloon and the New Territories. Each district has a different district prefix: the English abbreviation of the district prefix is China Hong Kong Island and outlying islands for 5 hours, Lijingshan Road and Kwai Chung section of Castle Peak Road in Kowloon, Saigon District and Kwai Tsing District, which are used in the 3 K New Territories (except Lijingshan Road and Kwai Chung section of Castle Peak Road in outlying islands, Saigon District and Kwai Tsing District). If you call the same outlying island, just dial the last four digits. If calling other outlying islands in the outlying islands area or Hong Kong Island in China, or calling outlying islands from Hong Kong Island in China, please dial the complete telephone number without area code (6 or 7 digits); When calling from an outlying island to Kowloon or the New Territories, or from Kowloon or the New Territories to an outlying island, please dial the area code first, and then the whole telephone number. However, mobile phones, some paging stations and special phone numbers (usually 0, 1, 9) have no regional prefix. When you dial these numbers anywhere in Hong Kong, the numbers you dial are the same. /kloc-in the 1970s, the fixed telephone numbers in mainland China and Hongkong were only six digits, which was not enough to meet the demand at first. As a result, China Hongkong Telephone Company began to prepare for the promotion: First, the original prefix in the New Territories was changed from 12 to 0; Then add 7 digits to the newly developed area and the newly applied fixed line; In addition, some old districts will increase from the original six figures to seven figures. For example, Bo Fulin's telephone number was changed from 47xxxx to 8 174xxx. At this stage, the old fixed telephone number is six digits, while the new one is seven digits. The first digit of the latter is arranged according to a specific region: district prefix Hong Kong Island 8 Lai Jingshan Road in Sai Kung District, Kowloon and Kwai Tsing District and Kwai Chung Section of Castle Peak Road 7 New Territories East (Sha Tin District, Tai Po District and North District) 6 New Territories West (Tsuen Wan District, Kwai Tsing District, Tuen Mun District and Yuen Long District) 4 Islands District 9 until all necessary changes are completed. By1986165438+10, * * announced the cancellation of the area code from 1990 1. From that day on, whether you call the same area or not, you just need to dial the original seven digits, and you don't have to add them before. As for the original six digits, China, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon all use the prefix of the original region as the prefix, with 6 in New Territories East and 4 in New Territories West. For example, "123456" in Hongkong Island, China. From that day on, you must dial "5 123456" to call this number anywhere in Hong Kong. As for the telephone number of paging stations, small paging stations used ordinary fixed telephone numbers in the early days, while large paging stations used special numbers with the prefix 1 1 (no regional prefix). Later, small paging stations closed down or were acquired one after another, leaving only large paging stations to continue to provide services, so the telephone numbers of all paging stations were 1 1. With the increase of population, telephone numbers are not enough, even reaching saturation level. 1 99565438+1October1,the number has been added again. All ordinary fixed telephone numbers are preceded by two characters, from seven to eight digits, and later a new number with a prefix of three is introduced. As for the phone number of the paging station, ordinary paging stations will add 7 characters in front of it, for example, 1 12 3456 will be changed to 7 1 1, and the secretary paging station will change the prefix of1to 7 characters, for example The mobile phone number and private phone number (0 or 1 or 9 prefix) have remained unchanged until now. It is expected to meet the telephone number requirements of future 15 (1995 to 20 10). As for the mobile phone number, except for some non-9-prefix numbers (it is difficult to verify what the prefix is) in the early days of mobile phone service in1980s, they have always been 8 digits and 9-prefix numbers, which were not enough in the early 2000s, so a 6-prefix number was added. On May 20th, 2008, China Mobile Wanzhong Telephone Co., Ltd. officially launched a 5-prefix mobile phone number, becoming the first operator in Hong Kong to launch a 5-prefix mobile phone number [1]. In addition, Telecom Digital changed some prefix 7 numbers originally used as paging stations into mobile phones. In July 2006, OFTA published a consulting report on the review of telecommunications services. It is estimated that the fixed telephone number and mobile phone number can be merged in two years at the earliest. At that time, users can use fixed-line numbers as mobile phone numbers, and mobile phone numbers can also be used as fixed-line numbers. [2] On June 5438+ 10, 2008, OFTA indicated that the existing eight-digit telephone number would be used up around 20 15. At the same time, it has been issuing telephone numbers to telephone service operators free of charge, but the latter has detained a large number of telephone numbers and failed to put them on the market. Therefore, it is suggested that telephone service operators should be charged a licence fee of HK$ 3 for each telephone number, hoping to encourage the industry to return the detained telephone numbers. In addition, in 2008, the bureau introduced a 5-prefix mobile phone number, and later allocated a 7-prefix paging station phone number, which is rarely used now (because pagers have been out of service for a long time) to extend the service life of eight digital phone numbers [3].
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