| Country: | Eswatini |
| Country Link: | Eswatini |
| Continent: | Africa |
| Country Calling Code: | +268 |
| International Prefix: | 00 |
| Trunk Prefix: | n/a |
Eswatini, then known as Swaziland, was allocated the country code +268 by the International Telecommunication Union, in the late 1960s.[1] To call a telephone number in Eswatini, the following format is used:
| List of allocations[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDC (National Destination Code) or leading digits of NSN (National Significant Number) | NSN number length | Usage of E.164 number | ||||
| 22 | 8 | Geographic number | Fixed line | Shiselweni region | ||
| 23 | 8 | Geographic number | Fixed line | EPTC | Lubombo region | |
| 24 | 8 | Geographic number | Fixed line | EPTC | Hhohho region | |
| 25 | 8 | Geographic number | Fixed line | EPTC | Manzini region | |
| 76 | 8 | Non-geographic | GSM | MTN Eswatini | - | |
| 77 | 8 | Non-geographic | CDMA | EPTC | - | |
| 78 | 8 | Non-geographic | Mobile GSM | MTN Eswatini | - | |
| 79 | 8 | Non-geographic | Mobile GSM | Eswatini Mobile | - | |
Subscriber numbers were extended by a digit with '2' prepended to fixed numbers and '7' to mobile/GSM numbers.[3] [4]
Expanded mobile numbers (+268 6xxxxxx) took effect 1 March 2010. Old dialling format was allowed until the mandatory date of 1 June 2010.
Fixed numbers were expanded on 1 February 2011, postponed from the previously scheduled 1 August 2010, with mandatory use on 1 May 2011 (previously scheduled 1 November 2010).
| +268 2xxxxxx | +268 22xxxxxx | Shiselweni | 1 Feb 2011 | 1 May 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| +268 3xxxxxx | +268 23xxxxxx|Lubombo|1 Feb 2011|1 May 2011|-|+268 4xxxxxx | +268 24xxxxxx|Hhohho |1 Feb 2011|1 May 2011|-|+268 5xxxxxx | +268 25xxxxxx|Manzini |1 Feb 2011|1 May 2011|-|+268 6xxxxxx | +268 76xxxxxx|mobile (GSM)|1 Mar 2010|1 Jun 2010|}List of prefixes in Eswatini
Calls to and from neighbouring countriesUntil the 1990s, Swaziland was integrated into the South African telephone numbering plan; calls from South Africa to Swaziland were made using the code 0194.[5] Calls to South Africa from Swaziland, however, required the use of the regional code 07.[6] Calls to Lesotho were similarly made using the regional code 05 while those to Mozambique were made using the code 06.[7] References | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||