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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
Where are you getting the "1100" code from? That might be your problem.
USA, Canada, and other countries in country code "1" use "011" as the international dialing ...
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How to 'save' my U.S. mobile phone number over a year of inactivity (out of US)
Create a Google Voice account and get a number from them. Then use the option within Google Voice to port existing number to your Google Voice account. I believe there is a small (maybe $10-$20) ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
13xxxx is a "magic" number.
For instance, calling 131 888 will ring the nearest Domino's Pizza (to your location in Australia). Your number will presumably reach the nearest Kia dealer.
From ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
To dial a number in another country, you first dial the international access code for your country, then the code for the country you're calling, then the actual phone number, usually omitting the ...
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How to call an Italian mobile from a UK mobile while in Italy?
Yes, if you are roaming from the UK, then you should usually dial a foreign country exactly as you would at home.
Bear in mind that prefixing with +39 is more likely to work on mobile than 00 39.
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Trouble accessing internet and MMS with T-Mobile prepaid SIM card in my EU phone
The Motorola G22 supports 4G bands 1/3/5/7/8/20/38/40/41, while T-Mobile USA uses bands 2/4/5/12/66/71. So, your phone is almost entirely incompatible with T-Mobile USA's 4G network, except in areas ...
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How to 'save' my U.S. mobile phone number over a year of inactivity (out of US)
Port the number to a "Virtual Number" service.
There are services such as Callhippo or Google Voice that will give you a "virtual phone number". You either access it via VoIP, or ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
They aren't accessible from every country, but from the US it should be.
[International dial-out code] + (61) + your inbound number should do the trick.
So in this case, 1100, if that's your dial ...
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Can I use a US simcard in the UK?
If you want to receive phone calls, just make sure you have roaming enabled. You can call your operators to confirm, I believe sometimes you have to explicitly enable it. In countries I've lived in, ...
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How can a Russian mobile number receive texts in Canada?
I've been locked out of SMS 2FA in another country with no way to quickly restore the phone number. F*** that. A few things you can do before that happens:
Some carriers let you send and/or receive ...
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How to 'save' my U.S. mobile phone number over a year of inactivity (out of US)
You could port your number to Ting, an MVNO. It’s US$6 / month (plus some taxes) if you don’t use it.
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How to 'save' my U.S. mobile phone number over a year of inactivity (out of US)
I mean to keep the number but no service.
Aside from the virtual number services that Harper - Reinstate Monica and Midavalo mentioned in their answers, some phone plans allow pausing, such as ...
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Problem with roaming in EU (European operator)
Your phone takes a while to connect to a roaming network because first it tries to scan for all networks, which takes a while. The phones of travelers coming home will immediately find their preferred ...
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An iPhone purchased in the US: will it work in New Zealand?
It will work fine, you can check for any phone and network at sites like Willmyphonework.net, where both US models of the iPhone 7 come up clear for all NZ phone networks on all frequencies (2G, 3G, ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
Telephoning Kia from International may not be possible because of their short number - it may be a special number like a US 1-800 that doesn't work internationally.
Australian landline telephone ...
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VOIP providers that provide support to receiving SMS from short codes?
I happen to work for a full-blown multi-national phone operator.
Yes, there are VOIP providers supporting it.
There are many factors involved in getting this to work. VOIP providers are usually tiny ...
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Is there a way to get a US phone number in Europe that allows one time code texts from banks, etc.?
Some VoIP services (anveo is one I use for this) offer geographic or mobile (cellular) numbers which can receive SMS. Many of these services offer an SMS to email gateway as well, which makes ...
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How can a Russian mobile number receive texts in Canada?
Install an app which relays incoming texts to email.
Leave the phone in Russia, turned on and connected to power source.
Travel to Canada (or wherever) and receive texts by email.
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How can I know whether some parts of a path are not covered by cellular network?
Your best bet is to look up the coverage map for your carrier. The major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint/T-Mobile) all have maps, and you can look at your planned route and see what the coverage ...
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How do I make sure I'm not charged by my mobile carrier?
Do you have 'WiFi calling'? If so it may work when you use the new SIM's data service.
Edit: changed should work to may work, based on a comment below.
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Call this number from the United Kingdom?
In a comment OP has indicated they they are trying to contact the Italian Post Office - they list an additional phone number: +390659581 in the footer of some of their webpages (for example: https://...
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How to 'save' my U.S. mobile phone number over a year of inactivity (out of US)
Many of the existing answers are giving good advice about where to park your number but are glossing over the first of the two steps involved:
Port your number away from Verizon. As your current ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
One approach that is generally useful for calling toll-free numbers (from outside the country they're intended to be used in) but, unfortunately, fails in the case of Australian toll-free numbers is ...
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Traveling to the USA - Phone coverage and solutions
You may want to consider buying or renting a mobile hotspot and just getting a single sim for that. You can google “mobile hotspot rental” and see if it’s cheaper to do so from your home country or ...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
It is not enough to use 61 as the country code.
You must also use an area code.
So +61 2 132221 for CBA IVR/VRU
Be aware that 13 numbers are not always the same across all area codes or even ...
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How to use payphone for calls within Cuba?
There are public phones in Cuba, and they look like this
In order to call you need phone card (tarjeta propia) sold at ETECSA stores, it has blue color. Phone cards are sold in CUCs ($5, $10, and $20)...
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How do I call a 6-digit Australian phone number with a US-based mobile phone?
SQB covered it very well.. Six digit 13 numbers are generally for use only within Australia because the owner of the number might be charged for its use. That is also why there are significantly ...
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A phone setup for frequent international travel
There are multiple companies that offer world wide coverage with unlimited (or nearly unlimited) data, text, and calling, without extra cost, for example Google Fi, or T-Mobile.
Those offers depend on ...
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A phone setup for frequent international travel
You could have a dual-sim phone.
One sim serves the european countries, since with new roaming regulamentations you can use the mobile services as you are in your home country. If you are Danish, ...
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