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Telephones and E-mail
Ecuador's phone service still has a long way to go, but is getting better. Local and interprovincial calls can usually be made from a number of places, like little stores that rent phones, from your hotel or from the EMETEL office. Public cellular phone centers are now located everywhere and are very economical fro local and long distance calls.
Interprovincial calls can be made by using any one of six area codes.
Dial 02 before all calls to the province of Pichincha and Quito,
Dial 03 before calls to the provinces of Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Pastaza, and Tungurahua, and the cities of Banos, Ambato, Puyo and Riobamba.
Dial 04 before numbers to the province of Guayas and the cities of Guayaquil and Salinas.
Dial 05 before numbers to the Galapagos and the provinces of Los Rios and Manabi and the cities of Manta, Portoviejo, Quevedo and Babajoyo.
Dial 06 before numbers to the provinces of Carchi, Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Napo and Sucumbios and the cities of Esmeraldas, Tulcan, Ibarra, Otavalo, Latacunga, Tena, Coca, and Lago Agrio. (So, for example, to call Hotel Ali Shungu (in Otavalo) from Quito, you would have to dial 06-920750).
07 before numbers to the provinces of Azuay, Canar, El Oro, Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe, and the cities of Cuenca, Machala, Azogues, Gualaceo, Loja (Vilcabamba) and Zamora.
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