{"id":63,"date":"2008-11-29T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=63"},"modified":"2011-06-01T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T06:46:30","slug":"telephone_number_changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/telephone_number_changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephone number changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2008\/11\/DSCF0005.html','popup','width=251,height=320,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2008\/11\/DSCF0005.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/blognews\/assets_c\/2008\/11\/DSCF0005-thumb-320x407.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0005.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s so Simple&#8230; isn&#8217;t it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anything but, it would seem. We have reports of many people failing to reach our phone numbers using the new 211 code for Lusaka, which seems to often result in a &#8220;number not in use&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p>On speaking to an operator we are advised to try 1 instead of 211. It appears that old and new prefixes are running alongside each other and one or the other may work, or not.<\/p>\n<p>This official notice announcing changes beginning in May 2007 tells us that the Zambia code is still 260, but that the Lusaka land line code has gone from 1 to 211, when calling from outside of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>In Zambia, the Lusaka land line prefix 01 has changed to 021.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile numbers are another story, as shown in the other entries. Recently I have managed to get through to Makeni using 1 for Lusaka on skype, but not using 211 by any means. Will the real Lusaka code please stand up!<\/p>\n<p>A full briefing can be found on the Communications Authority web page on<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.caz.zm\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=72&#038;Itemid=89<\/p>\n<p>It seems to get increasingly less simple, but we are advised that the cut off for changes was November 2007. Perhaps they are behind schedule?<\/p>\n<p>Just try 1, or 211. One may work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so Simple&#8230; isn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; Anything but, it would seem. We have reports of many people failing to reach our phone numbers using the new 211 code for Lusaka, which seems to often result in a &#8220;number not in use&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/telephone_number_changes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[13,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makeni.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}