Ukraine on the night of October 13/14 it to switch to a new telephone dialing system.
Starting from October 14, to call to another city within Ukraine one will need to dial 0 instead of 8.
The codes for making international telephone calls from Ukraine have
also changed. Users should now dial 00 before the country code instead
of dialing 10.
Under the new system, users should just dial the area code followed
by the number. For example, to call Kyiv from regions one would need to
dial 0-44 and then the number, to make international call to Moscow one
would need to dial 0 – 7- 495 and then the number.
Moreover, Kyiv region will get its own area code of 45, while the city will retain 44.
At the same time, most cell phone operators will retain both the new and old dialing systems for some period of time.
Thus, Ukrainian Mobile Communication will keep both systems until
February 1, 2010, the Ukrainian Beeline cell phone operator (Ukrainian
RadioSystems and GoldenTelecom GSM) until January 15, 2010, mobile
operators of the telecommunication group Vega until the middle of
December, Intertelecom until the end of November, Kyivstar GSM minimum
until the middle of November 2009.
