Can someone explain how Egytian phones numbers work?

Thanks!!! This helps immensely.

hello stumble_on;

to start with take your coworker point " it will help you during your stay here in all aspects "

as for phone numbers " for land lines & check first that u have access to 0 service", till last year all phones in cairo & giza " and maybe other cities as well not sure" was 7 numbers after they change that to 8 numbers so some areas they add 2 befor the old number other areas they add 3 so if you"r dailing a number - land line - & you find"t 7 numbers only u will have to check what to add next to it and u daial 8 numbers strait without adding 0 or anything if u"r dailing"t from mobile u have to add citiy code before, and if u"r dailing mobile you daile"t strait as it is whether from land line or mobile;

i wish that this was some help
welcome to egypt:dumbom:

suzana

just remember that each city got a different code unless you are dialing a short number like 19XXX or delivery numbers like 16xxx

but when you call from a local phone then it would be as follows:
Cairo: 02-XXXXXXXX(city code-local number)
Alex:  03-XXXXXXX (city code-local number)

http://countrycode.org/egypt

this link would help you if you are calling from Great Cairo any city other than Great Cairo.

Stumble_On wrote:

Hi all -

This may sound ridiculous, but can someone explain how Egyptian phone numbers work? The number of digits in a number seems completely arbitrary and then sometimes I have to add +20, then sometimes people tell me to drop the '0' in front of a number, and someone told me to randomly add a '3' so that I have the correct number of digits.

A coworker told me yesterday, "In Egypt anything is possible, but nothing is easy"...I think I take her point.

will there are so simple

country code is +2 not +20
mobiles starts with 010 or 012 or 011 etc..

so if your mobile number is 0111234567
it becomes +2 011 1234567

Cairo land lines starts with 02 alex. starts with 03
so if you number is 21234567 and you live in Cairo
your number is +2 02 2123457
if you live in Alex.  +2 03 21234567
got it?

i hope this could help
and welcome to Cairo

Amr
if you need anything PM me

damn zis codes lol

Yeah, super confusing and this dusty wind storm things is brutal. haha. Thanks for the support everyone!