During that transitional period, when calling a landline, area code and an extra 2 were added at the beginning of the number, or between the area code and number.
Total number portability exists in Chile,[2] so users can freely move from one service provider to another without losing their number, regardless of connection technology, whether land-line, mobile or VoIP.
There is a group of special numbers for public services, and they are in the format 1XY.
The most important ones are: In Chile it is necessary to choose the carrier for international long-distance calls every time and therefore to obtain the best rate for any destination.
Long-distance carriers have a prefix that must be dialed when calling long distance: XXX + 0 + country code + area + phone The current carrier codes are:[4] Mobile phone numbers do not have a specific starting digit.