Public phones operate mostly by phone cards, which can be purchased in the amounts of 5, 10, and 20 Euros at newsstands, bookstores, and other small shops.

Cellphone networks are widespread and work on GSM standards, so that all triband mobile phones purchased anywhere in Europe or the USA should work in Germany, too. Japanese cellphones use a different standard and don't work in Germany. What is the cheapest network depends on the roaming contracts that exist between the foreign network and possible German partners.

00 (zero zero) is the International Access ( Dial ) Code you use to make an overseas call from within Germany.  

49 (four nine) is the International Country Code for calling Germany.

Area Codes for the Major German cities are:

  •  30 Berlin 
  •  228 Bonn 
  •  421 Bremen 
  •  231 Dortmun 
  •  351 Dresden
  •  211 Düsseldorf
  •  361 Erfurt
  •  69 Frankfurt
  •  40 Hamburg
  •  511 Hanover / Hannover
  •  221 Köln
  •  341 Leipzig
  •  89  Munich
Germany Mobile Telephone Operators and Codes

Mobile numbers in Germany are portable, which means mobile area codes are no longer guaranteed to be associated with a particular operator.

  • T Mobile
  • Vodafone
  • E-Plus
  • 02
Germany Emergency Telephone Numbers