IDD Calls, Sri Lanka.

IDD calls to Sri Lanka, is now available from all over the world. Meanwhile IDD calls to any part of the world from Sri Lanka. In the meantime, all the SLT phones have the ability to make and receive IDD calls without any special payment. CDMA phones and Land line phone owners must obtain permission from their carrier for to enable this IDD facility. Some carriers may require a deposit to enable this service to their customers. IDD - International Direct Dialing calls can be made at any time from Sri Lanka although off peak hours and holidays are good for cheap tariff. Sri Lanka Local time is GMT + 5.30 hours. All the Government post offices and private communication centers provide this IDD calling facility to call any country from here. Most of IDD calls from here are used to call USA, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Japan and Middle East region phone numbers. This is because in these countries lot of Sri Lanka origin people are living permanently or working under contracts.

In addition during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year millions of phone calls to and from Sri Lanka used to originate. In addition people used to send and receive millions of greeting messages through mobile Apps, specially through WhatsApp.

Lot of communication centers used to offer IDD Calls through the VoIP service. These calls are very cheap. The quality of the call is perfect in these places. Also they used to connect their calls to customers directly. There is direct calling facility is too available from public phone booths. There used to be cheap phone cards and calling cards are available in all the phone shops with different call minutes. Before the phone lines became as digital or Fiber Network, subscribers needed to call the phone company to place a Trunk call or International call from their land lines. After the system became digital and the digital phones are fitted to the customer's homes then only the IDD calls became a reality. Then the VoIP came and revolutionized the IDD telephone sector to be with crystal clear sound and the call minutes price too are slashed when compared to the wire phone calls. Because of this many countries lost phone revenue and some Arab countries even banned the calls through VoIP Network. Due to the rapid expansion of the Internet and VoIP technology controlling the phone calls is going out of hand for many countries.

IDD calls to USA from Sri Lanka?
Dial 001, city code followed by the subscriber’s phone number.
Or +1 followed by city and suscriber's number from a mobile phone.

How to make cheap IDD calls using Smartphone and its Mobile Data Plan?
First of all you and other in foreign country should have Smartphone, Data plan and should be member in WhatsApp. Viber, Skype or Snapchat.
Say if both of you have WhatsApp, each of you must accept the other person in its account.
Now check in the Smartphone if the other person is online.
If so you can send free chats, make free calls and video calls.
So it will be free calls and messaging where you will spend very few money for the mobile data plan. And no call charge will apply.
Watch out some countries doesn’t allow this kind of IM services in their countries.

In Sri Lanka Dialog Axita offers Skype calls for mobile phones of their customers. Use this facility to call anyone in the overseas countries at affordable rate.

International Direct Dialing (IDD) Country Code.

Country	Code
Algeria	213
Andorra	33
Antigua	180946
Aruba	599
Australia	61
Austria	43
Bahrain	973
Bangladesh	880
Barbados	180942
Belgium	32
Bolivia	591
Bonaire	599
Brazil	55
Brunei	673
Canada	1
Chile	56
Colombia	57
Costa Rica	506
Curacao	599
Cyprus	357
Czechoslovakia	42
Denmark	45
Ecuador	593
Egypt	20
Gabon	241
Gambia	220
Germany	49
Ghana	233
Gibraltar	350
Greece	30
Guam	671
Guatemala	502
Guyana	592
Hawaii	1808
Hong Kong	852
Hungary	36
Iceland	354
India	91
Indonesia	62
Iran	98
Iraq	964
Ireland Rep.of	353
Italy	39
Ivory Coast	225
Fiji	679
Finland	358
France	33
Kenya	254
Korea (South)	82
Korea (North)	852
Kuwait	965
Lesotho	266
Liechtenstein	41
Luxembourg	352
Macao	853

Malawi	265
Malaysia	60
Maldives	96
Malta	356
Mauritius	230
Mexico	52
Monaco	33
Namibia	264
Nauru	674
Netherlands	31
New Zealand	64
Nigeria	234
Niger (W.Africa)	227
Norway	47
Oman	968
Pakistan	92
Panama	507
Papua	New
Paraguay	595
Philippines	63
Poland	48
Portugal	315
Romania	40
Saba	599
Samoa western	685
San Marino	39
Singapore	65
St.Eustatius	599
St.Kitts Nevis
St.Maarten	599
Saudi Arabia	966
Sierra Leone	232
South Africa	27
Spain	34
Sudan	249
Sweden	46
Switzerland	41
Swaziland	268
Syria	963
Tahiti	689
Taiwan	896
Tanzania	255
Thailand	66
Tunisia	216
Turkey	90
Uganda	256
UAE	971
UK	44
USA	1
Uruguay	598
USSR	7095
Vatican City	39
Yemen	967
Yugoslavia	28
Zambia	260

International IDD - Dialog.

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SLT IDD

Lanka Bell IDD

Airtel IDD

Hutch IDD