Calling phone numbers in Rome
 

Can anyone please help: I have been given phone numbers of Rome Shuttle, Rental companies etc. in Rome.

They are +(39) 123 456 7890 country code of 39 + 10 digit number. But one company gives me a number like
+(39) (0) 123 456 789 country code + 0 + 9 digits

When I am in Rome and want to call these numbers, am I to dial all the numbers? Does anyone also know why the second number has a "zero" after "39"??

Thanks

I think I got that figured out:

(39) = Italy country code
(06) = Rome city code

If it is a cell phone, it "usually" starts with a "3" and there is no city code.

So when I am in Rome and want to call a number in Rome, I should dial the entire thing +(39) ....

The 10 digit numbers I gave as an example should have been +(39) 3xx xxx xxxx (for example), and they are cell phone numbers because they start with a "3". The second number with the zero should have been +(39) 06 xxx xxx xx, and they are not cell numbers.

You don't dial the country code (39) when in Italy. You just dial the entire number without the country code.

Italian numbers vary in length. They can be eight or nine numbers. If their number has a zero in it - even if zero is the first number, then you dial that too.

Oh ... so I was wrong. Thanks!!

To confirm: when I am in Rome (or anywhere in Italy), I do not dial the "39". But do I still have to dial the + first?

If not, then I guess I just dial the numbers after (39)?

"dial the +"?

The plus is there to show, for example, if you were dialing from the US you would have to dial

011 plus 39 plus 123456789

And tere are even still some telephone numbers in Italy that are only 5 digits--long-standing numbers in smaller towns.

The + merely indicates it is an international number. On a mobile phone you can press +39, on a landline you need your international access code then 29.
The (0) indicates that if you are not dialling from abroad you need to dial the 0 first.

If you are using a mobile phone within Italy, which does not have an Italian Sim card in it you must dial the number as if it is an international call, ie +39 123456

Yes - that's what I mean.

I will be bringing my own cell, with a sim card from United Mobile - formerly Riiing (which now uses a UK phone number rather than Luxumberg)

I know that IF you are within a country and dialing from a land line, you skip the +(country code). But even in Edmonton (area code 780) Canada at home when I dial locally using my cell I always dial the entire number +1(780) xxxxxxx, because my phone book resides in the cell phone, so that no matter where I travel, or when I change out sim cards, I can still dial using the phone book stored in my cell phone.