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For American Samoa,

see the listings for country code 1, at https://www.ckts.info/directory/nanpa.

Australia

Non-Australia callers replace initial '0' with +61

STD
CODE
EXCHANGE
NAME
TELEPHONE
NUMBER
NAME/SERVICE DESCRIPTION/COMMENTS
(0) 02 Hobart 22001    Read back your Caller ID Hobart, Tasmania originally had the somewhat confusing 002 area code which resulted in many wrong numbers considering NSW was (and still is) 02 and 0 was often used as the access code for an outside line.
(0) 02 Hobart 22190    Australian Ring Tone
(0) 02 Hobart 22191    Australian Busy tone Answers, plays 30 seconds then congestion tone
(0) 02 Hobart 22192    Australian NU tone Answers, plays for 30 seconds then congestion tone
(0) 02 Hobart 22193    Australian Congestion tone Answers, plays for 30 seconds. Every 2nd tone burst is -10dBm
(0) 02 Hobart 22194    Hobart Time Terminates on an * switch, NTP locked.
(0) 02 Hobart 22197    Sounds of the Australian bush 3 minutes
(0) 02 Hobart 22198    1004 Hz Test Tone Asterisk switch
(0) 02 Hobart 22901    Ian M Home brew switch based on ATmega2650 processor supporting DTMF, MFC and decadic. This line terminates on a Type 400 Bakelite phone. Local time UTC+10/11
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 0000    PhoneNet IVR [24/7] PhoneNet Main Number. Goes to IVR if switchboard operator is not available. (PSTN: +61 2 8403 0000)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 1111    PhoneNet Switchboard [24/7] PhoneNet Switchboard. Goes to voicemail if not available. (PSTN +61 2 8403 1111)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 1194    Talking Clock [24/7] Replica of the 1194 talking clock. Synchronised with NTP (PSTN +61 2 8403 1194)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 1196    Weather [24/7] Weather Service for Sydney, Australia (PSTN +61 2 8403 1196)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 19291    Switch Verification [24/7] Avaya Communication Manager - Switch Verification
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 19799    Music On Hold [24/7] PhoneNet Radio
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 19901    Switch Verification [24/7] Asterisk - Switch Verification
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 19958    ANAC [24/7] Reads back your caller ID (ANAC)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2000    Ewing Residence Ewing Residence (main number for Shaun Ewing). Goes to IVR between 10pm-7am UTC+10.
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2111    Ewing Residence Fax [24/7] Kyocera Fax Machine. Feel free to send a fax. (PSTN +61 2 4703 9111)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2222    Ewing Residence IVR [24/7] Ewing Residence IVR. Please be mindful of timezones (UTC+10 here) before ringing extensions (PSTN +61 2 4703 9222).
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2291    Switch Verification [24/7] Avaya IP Office - Switch Verification
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2298    Music On Hold [24/7] Avaya IP Office - Music On Hold
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 2888    PhoneNet Fax [24/7] Feel free to fax at any time. (PSTN +61 2 8403 2888)
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 3801    Lenny [24/7] Lenny
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 3802    Ernestine [24/7] Ernestine Recordings
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 5000    Conferencing [24/7] PhoneNet Conferencing
(0) 247 Blue Mountains 8000    Test Line [24/7] IVR. Provides Echo Test, Caller ID readback, DTMF test, milliwatt tone, music on hold, etc. (PSTN +61 2 8503 8000)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11102    Radio Commercial Recorded Information Services May 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11103    Radio Commercial "Ask Your Phone" - Recorded Information Services June 1980
(0) 3 Melbourne 11104    Radio Commercial Extended Telefinder Paging Service May 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11105    Radio Commercial Telefinder Paging June 1980
(0) 3 Melbourne 11201    Radio commercial Post Office radio commercial explaining the STD pip tones.
(0) 3 Melbourne 11202    Radio commercial Post Office radio commercial promoting the use of STD calling for Mothers Day circa 1970(?)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11203    Recruiting commercial Telecommunications 30 sec Radio commercial April 1973
(0) 3 Melbourne 11204    Recruiting commercial Recruiting Technicians commercial 1973
(0) 3 Melbourne 11205    Recruiting commercial Recruiting Clerks commercial 1973
(0) 3 Melbourne 11206    Recruiting commercial Recruiting Clerks and Technicians commercial (combination of the previous two) 1973
(0) 3 Melbourne 11211    Radio commercial Phonogram Radio Commercial September 1976
(0) 3 Melbourne 11212    Recording Beep-A-The-Owl STD promotion - 45rpm record - internal staff info briefing from 1979. (There is a track jump due to a crack in the record I could not fix.)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11213    Radio commercial Radio commercial for Business Office services 1981.
(0) 3 Melbourne 11214    STD advert jingle "Someones Waiting For You To Say Hello" - November 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11215    Radio commercial Public Telephone Anti-vandal Campaign June 1984
(0) 3 Melbourne 11216    Radio commercial The Dangerous Digger Gang - On the Job - Sam Spade, Dudley Dynamite, Harry Hoe and Bill Dozer - Call 1100 before you dig (date unknown)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11217    Radio commercial The Dangerous Digger Gang - In Court - Call 1100 before you dig (date unknown)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11218    Radio commercial The Dangerous Digger Gang - Arrested - Call 1100 before you dig (date unknown)
(0) 3 Melbourne 11219    Radio commercial Melbourne Royal Show Sea Sounds Exhibit September 1984
(0) 3 Melbourne 11221    Radio commercial You can go a long way on a phone call #1 - May 1981
(0) 3 Melbourne 11222    Radio commercial You can go a long way on a phone call #2 - May 1981
(0) 3 Melbourne 11223    Radio commercial You can go a long way on a phone call #3 - May 1981
(0) 3 Melbourne 11224    Radio commercial You can go a long way on a phone call #4 - May 1981
(0) 3 Melbourne 11301    Easter Story No 1 April 2nd 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11302    Easter Story No 2 April 3rd 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11303    Easter Story No 3 April 4th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11304    Easter Story No 4 April 5th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11305    Easter Story No 5 April 6th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11306    Easter Story No 6 April 7th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11307    Easter Story No 7 April 8th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11308    Easter Story No 8 April 9th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11309    Easter Story No 9 Aptil 10th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11310    Easter Story No 10 April 11th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11311    Easter Story No 11 April 12th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11312    Easter Story No 12 Good Friday April 13th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11313    Easter Story No 13 Easter Saturday, April 14th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11314    Easter Story No 14 Easter Sunday, April 15th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 11315    Easter Story No 15 Easter Monday, April 16th 1979
(0) 3 Melbourne 1188    Dial-It Information Service Cricket Sports Phone "Dial a Cricket Champ - Melbourne Friday Dec 19 1981 (?) 9AM Mallett & Border" ... This was a seasonal information service, more of these cricket recordings will be posted as they are processed.
(0) 3 Melbourne 1194    Speaking Clock 24/7 - The original 1990 Solid State Speaking Clock developed by TRL and Assmann Australia. Time should be close to accurate as the frequescy reference is a HP Caesium Oscillator.
(0) 3 Melbourne 1196    Melbourne City Weather Synthesized voice announcement of Melbourne Australia weather forecast and current observations. Data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Updated every 15 minutes
(0) 3 812 Hawthorn SxS 730    SxS Test Call RVA via 2000 Type Step by Step Exchange. At present only operational on Wednesdays 0800 to 2000 Australian Eastern Standard time (UTC+10). Terminated on a solid state recorded voice announcement unit.
(0) 3 814 SxS Demo Model 030    Demo model Test Call RVA Demonstration SxS Model, via 2000 Type Step by Step Exchange. Operational only when main exchange operational - see entry for +61 3 812 730. Terminated on a solid state recorded voice announcement unit.
(0) 60 271 Yackandandah 194    ABC Speaking Clock Interview Imagine if the talking clock service was a real live person in a room, if that computerised voice that gives you the correct time when you call 1194 on Australian telephones was a real live person.
(0) 60 271 Yackandandah 433    Richard Lane PMG type 137 wall mounted telephone. Manufactured by Peel Conner of Britain. http://www.britishtelephones.com/aus/137mw.htm
(0) 60 271 Yackandandah 678    Test Tone - Milliwatt Test Tone - Yackandandah Exchange
(0) 728968 Cedar Creek 23    *Ian Jolly @ Cedar Creek in the outback to the west of Brisbane in Queensland! ;-) Believe it if you will? ;-)
(0) 82 Adelaide 1194    Speaking Clock
(0) 82 Adelaide 1195    Talking Clock Uses a PHP AGI script
(0) 82 Adelaide 961550    Jack Ryan Warradale - suburb of Adelaide SA
(0) 82 Adelaide UX2965    Jack Ryan Glen Osmond - Suburb of Adelaide SA (UX = 79)

 


For Guam and Hawaii,

see the listings for country code 1, at https://www.ckts.info/directory/nanpa.

New Zealand

Non-New Zealand callers replace initial '0' with +64

STD
CODE
EXCHANGE
NAME
TELEPHONE
NUMBER
NAME/SERVICE DESCRIPTION/COMMENTS
(0) 2409 Scott Base 8800    A remote telephone !! Aledgedly :-) http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=-77.85,166.75&ie=UTF8&om=0&z=1&ll=-30.145127,-174.375&spn=158.432661,360&iwloc=addr Hosted by Ian Jolly, UK..... +44 352 2345
(0) 54 Nelson 87106    Ian Jolly Terminates on the ivory NZPO Type HB672 (BPO Type 332) bakelite telephone from the original Nelson 87106
(0) 70 Napier 62910    Exchange phone OK 24/7
(0) 70 Napier 66703    NZPO Type 100 Best line to reach me. OK 24/7, but recorded message after hours.
(0) 70 Napier 66724    Desk phone OK 24/7
(0) 70 Napier 66891    NU Recording International number unobtainable announcement. OK 24/7
(0) 71 298 Whatawhata 801    Auto Answer Trunk tone
(0) 80 Putaruru 8682    Dahdi Phone - No calls after 9:00PM NZ Time
(0) 846 Warkworth 0001    Info about my PBX Welcome to call 24/7
(0) 846 Warkworth 0002    1004Hz Test Tone Welcome to call 24/7
(0) 846 Warkworth 0003    CLI Info Welcome to call 24/7
(0) 846 Warkworth 2525    Talking Clock Running on my Asterisk box, synced to msltime.irl.cri.nz
(0) 846 Warkworth 7494    1969 Rotary Dial Telephone I work shift work - call between 08:30 to 20:30 NZTime
(0) 85 Pukekohe 87001    Auto Answer Trunk Tone
(0) 85 32 Otaua 801    Auto Answer Trunk tone
(0) 85 32 Otaua 810    Exchange Telephone An NZUAX13 exchange (like yours in the UK!) near a long white sandy beach with palm trees on the North Island. http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=-37.30602&lon=174.741005&z=12.6&r=0&src=msl
(0) 85 32 Otaua 811    Alarm Test Number UAX13 Alarm Test number. Should be Inverted Ringing Tone if all is well, Number Unobtainable or no tone if there is a fault !
(0) 85 32 Otaua 812    NZ Busy Tone Demonstration tone
(0) 85 32 Otaua 813    NZ Number Unobtainable Tone NU Tone
(0) 85 32 Otaua 814    NZ Congestion Tone Demonstration tone
(0) 85 32 Otaua 815    Old Overflow Busy tone Old Overflow Busy Tone - used on 11th step on Strowger groupm selectors.
(0) 85 32 Otaua 864    Test line Test number on Softphone - not always on.
(0) 85 32 Otaua 876    *Ian Jolly F.E.S. Line IPphone on Foreign Exchange Station line to the UK
(0) 85 32 Otaua 877    Otaua Cats Home Nice people? :-)
(0) 85 32 Otaua 889    *Ian Jolly - Home number Currently terminates on an NZ Telecom SBX6 PABX - a small 2 + 6 first generation electronic system that uses reed relay cross-points for switching.
(0) 9 Auckland 30000    MOTAT - Old Radio Adds The Museum Of Transport And Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
(0) 9 Auckland 30002    SxS - Ring Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 30003    SxS - Busy Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 30004    SxS - Overflow Busy Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 30005    SxS - Nu Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 30006    SxS - Dial Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 30035    MOTAT - Thomas Watson Recording Thomas Watson talking about working with Alexander Graham Bell. Approx 5 minutes.
(0) 9 Auckland 30045    MOTAT - 1915 My Lady Of The Telephone Song Edison liked this song so much he had it recorded.
(0) 9 Auckland 30055    MOTAT - 1963 Queen Opening Compac Cable Compac - Commonwealth Pacific Telephone Cable. This recording is stored on an Asterisk Box in the UK to provide the modern equivalent of Compac.
(0) 9 Auckland 32180    MOTAT - Workshop Phone People only in the workshop 10:00am - 5:00pm NZ time on Tuesdays
(0) 9 Auckland 360002    WE 7A Rotary - Ring Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 360003    WE 7A Rotary - Busy Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 360005    WE 7A Rotary - NU Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.
(0) 9 Auckland 360006    WE 7A Rotary - Dial Tone Demo Standard Exchange Demo No.

 


For Northern Mariana Islands,

see the listings for country code 1, at https://www.ckts.info/directory/nanpa.

For Pitcairn,

See the listings for New Zealand, above.

 

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