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Businesses and Services in Colombia - Colombian Mobile Operators
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Calls to a mobile phone in Colombia

Mobile phone numbers follow the pattern:

YYY-XXX-XXXX when calling from any mobile phone
03-YYY-XXX-XXXX when calling from any landline phone
57-YYY-XXX-XXXX when calling from outside Colombia

Where YYY represents the access code for one of the country's three mobile phone operators:

300, 301, 302, 304 Tigo
310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 320, 321 Comcel
315, 316, 317, 318 Movistar
Calls from a mobile phone in Colombia

Calls from a mobile phone to a domestic landline phone follow the pattern:

03Z-XXX-XXXX

Where B corresponds to the dialing zone of the receiving phone.

To dial internationally from a mobile phone, the procedure is identical to calling from a landline phone.

Dialing zone code(Z):

1 Bogotá and Cundinamarca
2 Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño
4 Antioquia, Chocó and Córdoba
5 Atlántico, Bolívar, Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena and Sucre
6 Caldas, Risaralda and Quindío
7 Santander, Norte de Santander and Arauca
8 Boyacá, Tolima, Huila, San Andrés, Meta, Caquetá and the Amazon and Orinoco departments (Casanare, Vichada, Guainía, Vaupés, Guaviare, Amazonas and Putumayo)
Emergency numbers (Colombian National Police)
  • 1-1-2, called linea ciento doce (hundred and twelve line)
  • In the cities of Bogotá, Medellin and Cúcuta, dial 1-2-3, for police, fire department and general emergencies