Calling Italy with Prepaid Phone Cards

September 10, 2009

Italy is a peninsula which occupies the southern region of Europe and apart from the main land it also includes the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. With Rome as its capital city, Italy is home to at least 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sites which is the largest among all the countries in the world. Italy holds the honor of being the founding member of the European Union as well as the NATO and also holds the membership of the G8, the OECD, the WTO and a number of other European organizations.

Due to its historical importance, Italy witnesses an enormous annual influx of visitors and a number of people have a number of reasons for calling Italy. The recent technological advancements in the telecom industry has enabled people to make international calls without any anxiety as regards the bill and therefore, nowadays, the most popular method of calling Italy is through the use of Italy phone cards. While calling Italy with prepaid phone cards it is imperative for the caller to know that the country code for Italy is 39 and while dialing the city code for any Italian city, one need not drop the zero preceding the numbers as is done in case of city codes of all the other cities around the world. This anomaly was introduced at the turn of the century and is mentioned on all international prepaid phone cards which are used for calling Italy. The other significant aspect related to calling Italy with prepaid phone cards is the time difference which implies that Italy is one hour ahead of the GMT and six hours and nine hours ahead respectively from the east and west coast of America.

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