Jul 5, 2010

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Mobile Number Prefixes in the Philippines

Remember those days in the 90’s when there was only one prefix for the only two telcos competing? Globe uses 0917 while SMART uses 0918, and the less known Extelcom owns 0973. That’s all you need to remember to know which telco someone is subscribed to.

Mobile Number Prefix

Of course now there are a ton of mobile number prefixes and we have Sun Cellular to think of too as well as Globe and SMART offsprings such as Talk N’ Text, TM, etc. mudding the list.

Here’s a quick reference of mobile number prefixes to help you know if sending a message to that chick you just met will trigger your unlimited text subscription.

Globe | TM or Touch Mobile 0905, 0906, 0915, 0916, 0917, 0925, 0926, 0927, 0935, 0936, 0937
SMART | Talk N’ Text 0907, 0908, 0909, 0910, 0912, 0918, 0919, 0920, 0921, 0928, 0929, 0930, 0939, 0999
Sun Cellular 0922, 0923, 0932, 0933
Red Mobile | C.U.R.E 0938 (powered by SMART)
Nextel 0977, 0979

Chris sent us a tip on how to quickly figure things out. Memorize the fourth digit (091x). 1,2,3 belongs to Sun, 5,6,7 for Globe, 8,9,0 for SMART. Why is the number 4 not used?

Now what will happen if all 0900 prefixes get used up?

Via Digital Spidey

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12 Comments

  1. Zoi C. Hernandez says:
    July 5, 2010 at 10:05 pm

    Thanks for sharing Abe!

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  2. Chris says:
    July 8, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Another easy way to memorize the prefixes is to remember the fourth number (090x) .. 1,2,3 belongs to sun, 5,6,7 for globe, 8,9,0 for smart.

    reply
  3. MiGs says:
    July 14, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    4 is not used because according to the chinese, its not good for business.

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  4. Willem says:
    January 24, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    If the 094x will nog be used, that will leave around 999999999-100000000 numbers left. So total possible cominations of 89999999. Almost 900 million phone numbers. As for now the Philippines has around 90 million subsribers and there will be 60 million more over the next 3 years. That won’t be a huge problem.

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