Chile +56
International code · South America
How to dial
+56 91 234 5678
Dial +56, then the local number. Drop the leading trunk prefix 0. Generate the full number →
For domestic long distance dial 0 first, then the area code. Local calls: dial directly.
- Mobile length
- 9 digits
- Mobile prefixes
9X XXX XXXX- International format
+56 9X XXX XXXX- Domestic trunk
0
Sign-up availability
What to expect when signing up for these services with a physical SIM from this country:
Applies to every platform: VoIP / virtual numbers and heavily-reused number pools get rejected. Physical SIM only.
How to read a number
+56912345678
- +56Country code
- Chile.
- 9First digit
- Mobile numbers start with 9. Under the numbering plan as amended in 2018 there is only one kind of “subscriber number” in Chile: 9 digits, first digit not 0 or 1 — the rules no longer separate fixed ranges from mobile ones.
- 12345678Remaining 8 digits
- The subscriber part. Numbers are portable, so they don’t reveal the operator.
Dialling at home is simple: landline or mobile, wherever you are, you dial just those 9 digits — since 2018 the regulation literally says “dial the subscriber number”, with no trunk prefix.
Number ranges & quality
| Range | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
9 prefix, 9 digits (9 XXXX XXXX) |
Mobile carrier | The mobile numbers actually in use all start with 9 and are 9 digits long. But Chile's numbering plan no longer separates “fixed ranges” from “mobile ranges”: the 2018 amendment deleted definitions such as the mobile virtual area code and left a single rule — a subscriber number is 9 digits and must not start with 0 or 1. Add porting between fixed and mobile services (since 5 September 2016; Subtel's notification to the ITU gives fixed and mobile the same +56 YXX XXX XXX structure, Y being 2–9) and a number tells you neither the operator nor, strictly speaking, that it is a mobile. |
Physical SIMs can sign up without issues.
Carriers & prefixes
Mobile prefixes by carrier.
Number portability applies — a prefix only shows the original carrier.
Porting rules in full
Law 20.471 established portability. The mobile side opened nationwide on 16 January 2012 (fixed lines were phased in city by city from 5 December 2011). Companies may not charge for the port itself; a mobile port normally takes effect the next working day (Monday to Saturday count, public holidays don't), the technical switch runs between 3am and 5am and the line may drop for a few minutes. You keep your handset and can have it unlocked free of charge. Worth knowing up front: after porting you must wait 120 days before porting again; a prepaid line can't be ported within 30 days of activation; a postpaid line has to wait until its first bill falls due; and debt, or a handset reported stolen, will block it. For prepaid the operator you're joining texts a code to the phone, so have it with you. Chile also allows porting between fixed and mobile services, since 5 September 2016. Conclusion: a prefix tells you nothing about the operator, so there's no table here.
Subtel's list of operating companies has the four network operators below, plus five MVNOs (GTD Móvil, Virgin, Telestar, Netline, Simple) — but the official list doesn't say whose network each one rides on, so this site doesn't guess and gives them no cards.
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ClaroVTR Mobile carrier
The company formed by merging Claro and VTR; “ClaroVTR” is the name Subtel uses in its own list of operating companies.
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Entel Mobile carrier
A Chilean operator, also active in Peru.
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Movistar Mobile carrier
On 10 February 2026 Telefónica sold its Chilean mobile business outright to Celtel Chile, a joint venture of NJJ (51%) and Millicom (49%), for about USD 1.215 billion. The brand is migrating to Tigo, but Subtel's list and the SIMs on sale still say Movistar — “Tigo Chile” and “Movistar Chile” are the same company.
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WOM Mobile carrier
One of the four operators running their own network.
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