NCC develops National Numbering Plan for telephone networks

The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has developed a National Numbering Plan (NNP) with the aim of designing a uniform numbering scheme for easy calls to subscribers and operators.

The NCC declared on its website that 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 is originating from in the country.

Other NNP information includes, terminologies, dialing procedure, area codes by zone and primary centre and mobile telephony number allocation.

The information also indicated 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 statement read.
The commission said the international prefix is the number dialed after the international prefix.