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The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC)
says it has developed National Numbering Plan
(NNP) to set up uniform numbering scheme for
easy calls to subscribers and operators.
The NCC made this known in a statement on its
website on Friday in Abuja.


It said the NNP would provide a uniform dialing
procedure for local, national long distance,
international calls and calls to emergency, special
services, independent of where the call was
originating from in the country.


According to the NCC, other numbering
information includes, terminologies, dialing
procedure, area codes by zone and primary
centre and mobile telephony number allocation.
It said that some of its terminologies are
numbering area, trunk prefix, trunk code, directory
number and international prefix, among others.


“Numbering area is part of the country to which a
trunk code has been allocated and within that
area only the directory numbers are dialed.
“Trunk prefix is the digit or a combination of
digits to be dialed by a calling subscriber so as
to obtain access to a trunk code and the
numbering area.”
The commission said that the international prefix
was the number dialed after the international
prefix.


According to it, the international number consists
of the country code of the required country
followed by the national number of the called
subscriber.
NCC said that it was charged with development
of the NNP for the Nigerian telephone networks
both for fixed and wireless networks.

“This is to ensure allocation of unique numbers
to each subscriber connected to the network.’