- Code
- +979
- Status
- rarely used
Premium-rate numbers that work internationally. Calls are very expensive: be careful with any request to call +979.
Got a call from this code?
Unless you expect a call from a ship, an expedition or a foreign company, do not call back. Scammers ring briefly from expensive codes (+870, +881, +882, +883, +979) so that you call back and pay for the minutes. Check the full number with the number lookup.
Other global codes
- +800 International Freephone (UIFN)
- +808 International Shared Cost Service
- +870 Inmarsat (satellite phones)
- +871 Inmarsat Atlantic East (retired)
- +872 Inmarsat Pacific (retired)
- +873 Inmarsat Indian Ocean (retired)
- +874 Inmarsat Atlantic West (retired)
- +878 Universal Personal Telecommunications
- +881 Global Mobile Satellite System
- +882 International Networks
- +883 International Networks
- +888 UN OCHA humanitarian telecommunications
- +991 International Telecommunications Public Correspondence Service trial