Telephone numbers in Papua New Guinea

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.

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