Local Restrictions

The below restrictions are specific to numbering services (Geographic & Tollfree) provided by Pure IP. 
 
Please note that by default Tollfree numbers are not reachable from international callers.

 

Country
Notes
Anguilla Tollfree: Mobile access is available from Lime only
Argentina

Geographic:  Caller ID on international calls to Argentina numbers will be modified to a default Argentinian network provider number.

We can only guarantee ports and new numbers in Buenos Aires, other areas will be on a case by case basis.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not be guaranteed. 

Australia

Geographic: International inbound caller ID to Australia is not supported.

In accordance with national compliance, outbound caller ID's with the following criteria will be blocked - CLI's with less than 7 digits or more that 15; Caller ID starting with 61 less than 10 digits in length; No caller ID at all; Caller IDs starting with 1800, 1300, 1900.

Austria Geographic: We can only port the "main" number. Extensions of the main number can be configured by Pure IP and will be treated as additional numbers.
Belarus Tollfree: Not reachable from international caller IDs. Fully reachable nationally.
Bolivia Tollfree: International access not guaranteed. 
Botswana Tollfree: Numbers are only accessible from Botswana Telecom network. Limited to 20 concurrent calls per number per call.
Brazil

Geographic: These are the short codes that are reachable through Pure IP.

190: Military Police
191: Federal Highway Police
192: Ambulance
193: Firefighters
194: Federal Police Department
197: Civil Police
198: State Highway Patrol
199: Civil Defense
911: Emergency number that redirects to 190

Short codes in the format 103xx, 105x and 106xx are not reachable through Pure IP. These short codes are used to contact other telecommunication providers and pay tv companies (please note: they usually have alternate numbers which are not short codes that can be used via Pure IP if required)
 

Tollfree: We can only support the following format - 0800-89X-XXXX, 0800-76X-XXXX and 0800-086-XXXX. Tollfree numbers are not accessible from public pay phones.

Brunei Tollfree: Numbers can only be dialled from within country (Brunei can only be called within Brunei). No Mobile Access.
Bulgaria

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Numbers are only accessible from the following mobile networks - Vivacom & Globul Mobile. 

Cambodia Tollfree: Mobile Access only possible via Smart and Beeline. It is also reachable from "Hello" formally know as Hello Axiata which is the same as Smart Network.
Canada Tollfree: numbers only work from US and Canada CLI, international CLI's (other than US/Canada) are not guaranteed.
Chile

Tollfree: Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.

China

Non Geographic: Numbers will be issued on special request, before ordering please request information on China restrictions. Local requirement to issue two numbers for North and South.

Tollfree: mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.

Colombia Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.
Costa Rica Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.
Croatia

Geographic: Compatibility issues have been reported for international fax transmissions. T38 (fax) is not supported.

Calling to Premium Rate numbers or outbound calling to the following short codes - 118, 11888, 18981, 144 & 177 is not permitted.

Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.

Cyprus

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. 

Czech Republic

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

International Caller ID's will be masked with anonymous.

We can only support local CLI's in national format.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Tollfree numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.

Denmark Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier. 
Ecuador Tollfree: No International reachability. Accessible only from Codetel/Claro Network.
El Salvador Geographic: Mobile only works from Movistar mobile network and Telefonica fixed network. Not available from other mobile networks.
Estonia

Geographic: Compatibility issues have been reported for international fax transmissions.

International reachability on National number type is not guaranteed from outside of Estonia.

We do not support calling to Premium Rate numbers.

Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. 

Finland

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Number are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.

France Tollfree: Due to national regulations we can not provide Tollfree numbers to resellers. Any provided Tollfree numbers must be assigned directly to end user.
Georgia

Geographic: Fax services are not supported.

Reachability issues have been reported when dialing (0)706 numbers from outside of Georgia.  

Germany

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: End user must request the ownership of the numbers directly from regulators. 

Ghana Tollfree: Accessible from Airtel’s network only (Both Fixed & Mobile)
Greece Geographic: It may take up to 24 hours for all routing to be updated after number port completion.
Honduras Tollfree: Numbers do not work from Claro.
Hong Kong

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

International Caller ID's are not supported with Hong Kong numbers. CLI will not be presented on incoming international calls to your Hong Kong numbers.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.  

Hungary

Geographic: Outbound calls with international Caller ID's are not supported.

Tollfree: we can only port the following format - 06-800-XXXX. Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. 

Iceland Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. 
Israel

Geographic: Reachability issues have been reported when dialing the numbers from Paltel and Jawwal (Palestinian Telco's).

Tollfree: porting can not be guaranteed or may be difficult.

Italy Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier. Very strict restriction on port requests, we can not guarantee any amendments or cancellation will be accepted once port has been submitted.
Japan

Geographic: We can only provide numbers in the Tokyo area.

Calls to emergency & special services are not supported.

For call diverts, we cannot display the original calling party, the receiving party will see a default network number.

Tollfree: We can only port numbers in the following format - 0066, 0033 & 00531.

We can only allocate new numbers with the following format - 0066.

We can only guarantee coverage from the following fixed line providers - KDDI, NTT Communications & Softbank Telco.

Kazakhstan Tollfree: is not available from payphone and mobile networks
Kuwait Tollfree: Mobile access is not guaranteed, but it should work from Zajil network. There is no CLI.
Latvia

Geographic: Numbers cannot be used for calling-card applications.

Numbers are only reachable from within the EU.

Tollfree: Porting cannot be guaranteed or may be difficult. Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage. 

Lithuania

Geographic: Compatibility issues have been reported for international fax transmissions.

Tollfree: Porting cannot be guaranteed or may be difficult. Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage. 

Luxembourg

Geographic: Compatibility issues have been reported for international fax transmissions.

Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier. When porting, the main number must be ported alongside the extensions.

Tollfree: Porting cannot be guaranteed or may be difficult 

Macedonia Tollfree: No International reachability.
Malaysia Tollfree: Porting cannot be guaranteed or may be difficult. 
Martinique Tollfree: No International reachability
Monaco Tollfree: Mobile access not available. Dialing format is 800 9X XXX. 
Namibia Tollfree: Access is limited to calls only from Namibia Telecom phones.
Nepal Tollfree: Only available from Nepal Telecom fixed and mobile. Dial Format  1-800-xxx-xxxx. 
Nicaragua Tollfree: Mobile access is only available from Enitel.
Norway

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Numbers may be disconnected if there are long periods of no usage. 

Papua New Guinea Tollfree: Mobile access is not available. There is access from Manus Island.
Paraguay Tollfree: There is no access from mobile phones in Paraguay.
Peru Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.
Philippines Tollfree: Mobile access only available from PLDT, SUN and Smart, but is not guaranteed. Numbers may be disconnected if there are long periods of no usage. 
Poland

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Numbers may be disconnected if thee are long period of no usage.

Portugal Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier. 
Romania

Geographic: There may be some delays with activation of emergency services when allocating or porting numbers.

We can not provide numbers to resellers. 

Singapore

Geographic: Call forwarding to international numbers/toll frees is not allowed. Call forwards are only supported with Singapore numbers, but this is also not guaranteed.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.

Slovakia

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.

Slovenia

Geographic: T.38 (fax) is not supported.

Emergency Calling cannot be enabled on non-geographic numbers.

Currently we do not support calling to Premium Rate numbers.

Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.

South Africa Geographic: It may take up to 24 hours for all routing to be updated after number port completion. Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.
South Korea

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Non-Geographic: numbers are only available with the 827 prefix.

Please note: South Korea regulations do not allow the original calling party to be displayed as the caller ID on forwarded calls. If your setup requires call forwarding, please be aware that the CLI presented on the receiving end will be the forwarding number.

Sweden

Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier.

Tollfree: We can only port domestic tollfree numbers, we can not port international tollfree numbers. 

Switzerland Tollfree: Before we can provide Tollfree numbers, end user must order the numbers directly from local regulator - BAKOM.
Tanzania Tollfree: Accessible from Airtel’s network only. Airtel has only Mobile network in Tanzania. Only fixed is available. Mobile is not available. 
Turkey

Geographic: We can only port or allocate numbers with Istanbul & Ankara area codes.

Customized caller ID is not allowed.

We can only allocate new numbers to business end users.

Only the following emergency short codes are reachable - 110, 112, 122, 155, 156, 158, 177.

Tollfree: Fixed network limitation - No access from Super Online / Mobile Limitations - mobile access only available from Turk Telecom & Turkcell.

Uganda Tollfree: No International reachability.
United Arab Emirates Tollfree: Very limited quantity of numbers, we can not guarantee that the local UAE providers will approve our request for new numbers so each order will be treated on a case by case basis. Limit of 10 tollfree numbers per customer. 
United Kingdom Geographic: Partial porting is not supported, numbers must be ported in the full range provided by your current carrier. 
Uruguay Tollfree: Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed.
Venezuela Tollfree: Dial format: 0800-XXXX-XXX. Full national reachability, no international reachability. Mobile accessibility can not always be guaranteed. 
Vietnam Tollfree: To have best possible coverage in Vietnam three different numbers are required. One number that works only from the Viettel network fixed and mobile. A second number that works from the VNPT network and also allows access from Vinaphone mobile networks. A third number that works from Mobifone mobile networks. There is no access from Vietnamobile. Numbers are subject to disconnection if there is a long period of time with no usage.