The country with the longest number of world telephone (mobile) numbers is China.

Now the mobile phone penetration rate is very high, basically at least one mobile phone, so which country has the longest mobile phone number? In fact, the longest phone number in the world is the 11-digit Chinese mobile phone number. Why is the mobile number 11?

1, the number format determines

Our mobile phone number can be divided into three segments, each with different coding meanings: the first 3 digits are the network identification number, the 4-7 digits are the regional codes, and the 8-11 digits are the subscriber numbers. Therefore, the correct reading of the mobile phone number should be 1XX-XXXX-XXXX.

2, number segment capacity problem

The domestic mobile phone number was uniformly planned by the Ministry of Information Industry. In the early years, China’s mobile phone number was actually 10 digits, and the number of users continued to grow. Since 1995, the 10-digit number has not been used enough, so it has risen to 11th. The 11 mobile phone numbers were originally at the beginning of 13, and the capacity was 1 billion. Later, they gradually added the 15, 16, 17, and 18 segments, forming a scale of several billion, enough for the Chinese to use.

So, what are the mobile phone numbers of other countries?

Japan and China, the mobile phone number is also 11, Japan is the beginning of 080, 090.

China’s Taiwan, the United States, Germany, India, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the Philippines, Australia, etc., mobile phone numbers are all 10 digits.

The 9 digits are New Zealand, Thailand, 8 are like Singapore, and 7 are like Canada.