Telephones

The international dialling code for the Czech Republic is +420 (or 00 420). When calling from abroad this must be dialled first, followed by the 9-digit number.

Mobile telephones
Three mobile phone operators provide mobile services in the Czech Republic. Almost 100% of the country is covered by the mobile signal. The network uses the GSM 900 and 1800 system. This is compatible with the rest of Europe and Australia. Problems can arise with handsets from North America and Japan.

Tips for visitors:
Find out before you leave home what type of telephone you have and activate the roaming service provided by your operator.

Mobile telephone operators in the Czech Republic:
O2 (www.cz.o2.com) - info line 800 02 02 02
T-Mobile (www.t-mobile.cz) - info line 603 603 603
Vodafone (www.vodafone.cz) - info line 800 777 777

Information about telephone numbers is available at http://en.zlatestranky.cz (in English). You can call 1188 to find out any information you require about foreign and Czech telephone numbers (operators speak English, German, French, Russian and Slovak).

Calling to the telephone info lines of various companies and government institutions in the Czech Republic, which start with 800, is free.

If you send an SMS, by means of which you wish to pay for a service, the price of the service is generally the last two numbers. You can for example even buy a ticket for public transport in Prague by SMS.

Public telephone boxes
The Czech Republic has one of the densest networks of public telephone boxes in central Europe. The majority of these take telephone cards (150, 200 and 300 Kč) or Czech coins (though there are less of these).

An interesting fact:
With a prepaid TRICK card it is possible to send text messages from a public telephone.