Talk:Telephone numbers in Kazakhstan

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Source of info about change to +997?[edit]

For several years, there has been speculation that Kazakhstan might leave country code +7 for its own three-digit code, most likely +997, but there has been nothing official that I can find regarding such a change, much less specific implementation dates. The most recent communication from Kazakhstan to the ITU regarding its national numbering plan is an update from 2012-02-07 (dated 2012-03-19 by the ITU, download in EN/FR/ES from <http://www.itu.int/oth/T020200006F/en>), announcing the new numbering range +7 700 for Altel CDMA mobiles in Kazakhstan. If you were to replace the +7 7 of the existing number with a national trunk code '0', that would make those Altel mobile numbers 000 XXX XXXX, or +997 00 XXX XXXX, which would be exceedingly confusing. If Kazakhstan is indeed already planning to make the changes described in the main article, it would be downright asinine to assign +7 700 at this stage.

Is there any verifiable source corroborating the claim that Kazakhstan will change to country code +997, drop the leading '7' from existing area codes, and implement the national trunk code '0', in early 2013?

Lincmad (talk) 00:53, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes, 997 is used, but only in ICCIDs of SIM cards in Kazakhstan (for example 89 997 01), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card#ICCID, you can look into https://www.itu.int/pub/T-SP-E.118-2018 to see the whole picture. 2A00:1FA0:4457:9AF7:5E4:7608:4657:5684 (talk) 18:58, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]