MTN 072: Cellular: Used by Vodacom 073: Cellular: Used by MTN 074: Cellular: Used by Cell C (Cell C has allocated 0741 to Virgin Mobile) 0741: Cellular: Used by: Virgin Mobile as of June 2006 076: Cellular: Used by Vodacom 078: Cellular: Used by MTN 079: Cellular: Used by Vodacom 08 Cellular 0810: Cellular: Used by MTN 0811 - 0815: Used by TelkomSA (8.ta) 0816: WBS Mobile (Vodacom and MTN both have terminated SMS interconnect with WBS so SMS messages to/from this number range are not relayed) 0817: Used by TelkomSA (8.ta) 0818: Cellular: Used by Vodacom 082: Cellular: Used by Vodacom 083: Cellular: Used by MTN 083-9: Cellular rates to Telkom lines, reroutes call to a telkom line and pays number owner for received calls 084: Cellular: Used by Cell C Special Services 080: FreeCall, Toll-free, called party pays 083-9: Cellular rates to Telkom lines, reroutes call to a telkom line and pays number owner for received calls 085: Cellular: USAL license holders - Vodacom and MTN have some prefixes out of this range for their USAL offerings 086: Sharecall, MaxiCall and premium-rate services, calls can be routed to regional offices automatically 0860: Sharecall Land line callers pay local call, called party pays long distance if applicable 0861: MaxiCall caller always pay long distance for call even if routed to local office 0862 - 9: Premium rate caller pays increasing rate linked to last digit 0862, 0865, 0866, 08673, 08774, 08676: Fax to Email caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digits 08622, 086294: Competition lines caller always pay premium rate 08671 - 08674: Information services caller always pay increasing rate linked to last digit 087: Value-added services (VoIP among others) 088: Pagers and Telkom CallAnswer voicemail 089: Maxinet, for polls and radio call-in services Note that from 10 November 2006, mobile number portability was introduced in the cellular market. The cellular prefixes as above are therefore not strictly applicable anymore, although they remain mostly unchanged. 09 (Premium-rate and machine-related numbers) 090: Premium-rate services 0902: Premium-rated adult services 091: Premium-rate services 092: Premium-rate services 096: Machine-related services (14-digit numbers) 097: Machine-related services (14-digit numbers) 098: Machine-related services (14-digit numbers) There are still some non-automated exchanges which use longer dialing codes, mostly for "farm lines" and remote areas with operator-assisted exchanges. External links Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) - South Africa’s communication regulator How to call South