Talk:Telephone numbers in Taiwan

Was not always +886
In the late 1970s, the Republic of China (Taiwan) was accessible, at least from the United States, using country code +86. It may be that the Carter administration's change of diplomatic recognition to Beijing resulted in the People's Republic of China insisting that calls using +86 must route to the mainland. At this point, it was probably necessary to use a different code for the island of Taiwan, and therefore, unofficial use of +886, which for many years the ITU did not list as assigned, but only as "reserved", probably an unofficial acknowledgment that it was being used by at least some countries to enable direct dialing of the democratic portion of China. GBC (talk) 02:35, 2 April 2012 (UTC)


 * "Officially", Taiwan is assigned +86 plus city code 6. The current use of +886 is a "hack", so called. Shalom S. (talk) 23:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I first saw lists of international dialing codes for some 30-40 countries in an AT&T advertisement in an issue of National Geographic in the late 1970s. ROC was shown as 011-86 plus codes for some of the cities below. Not 866, just 86. It was some years later when I discovered the country was changed to 886, which is suggestive of 86 but "dial-around" using one of the unused 88X codes. (Bangladesh has the only other country-specific 88X code.) Guantanamo Bay in the 80s had a dial-around code of 5399, usable from the U.S. from which it was impossible to dial the rest of Cuba, but using the 53 code as if it were a four-digit country code. I could wonder if Cuba had an area code of 99 for some place in the country that would end up overriding if the U.S. ever could dial Cuba generally! That led me to wonder if the Canal Zone had a special dial-around code in the 1970s to let Americans dial Canal Zone exchanges, e.g. 50799 plus the Canal Zone phone number, except that there was not, between the U.S. and Panama, the same level of animosity as between the U.S. and Cuba. GBC (talk) 22:27, 8 January 2023 (UTC)https://www.facebook.com/help/1540345696275090/?helpref=uf_share
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Trying to add and correct prefixes regarding telephone numbering format using visual editor and the page keeps ending up glitching or with jibberish.
Hello I was editing the page Telephone numbers in Taiwan and the after using the visual editor. previewed the page using the preview function but after saving changes the information keep glitching with the tables either disappearing or in the wrong place. Was trying to correct errors in the numbering plans to mirror the Chinese Wikipedia entry,since it seems to be more accurate. Any ways to solve this issue? Thanks.66.214.169.209 (talk) 05:09, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Wrong map
The map of Taiwan pictured in this page is incorrect. Taiwan is a small island, here is picture as entire China mainland 2604:3D08:7F7F:6890:90FB:8059:661A:FC7E (talk) 10:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)