Australian Phone Number Prefixes

The phone number prefixes on this site are the two inbound business ones — 1300 and 1800 — plus 13, which appears as a base for Phonewords. If your question is about geographic area-code prefixes for landlines, that is not what this site sells, and this page explains the boundary rather than inventing coverage of it.

What each published prefix means

1300: the shared-cost business number. Callers pay a rate and the business pays the remainder; public plans start at $10 per month.
1800: the caller-free business number in the stated Australian 1800-number context. The business pays the call charges, on the same published plan ladder.
13: a shorter inbound base used for Phonewords — up to four letters follow the 13. Published Phoneword pricing starts from $40 per month.

How the prefix interacts with the rest of the number

On a 1300 or 1800 number, the prefix is fixed and the six digits after it are what you choose — which is why the published search hint works on the last six digits rather than the prefix. The prefix decides the caller arrangement; the tail decides the identity, especially when it spells a word under the keypad mapping. Searching the same tail on both prefixes is a legitimate way to compare availability and caller cost side by side.

The geographic-prefix boundary

Australian geographic numbers carry state and regional area codes, and queries about those prefixes are common. This site's published products are the inbound prefixes above; it does not establish area-code landline availability, state-specific numbering or any coverage claims tied to a region. If the requirement is genuinely geographic, that needs a different product, and the honest step is confirming that with the team rather than reading a business number as one.

Related reading: 1300 vs 1800 numbers, 1300 phone number availability, or the 1300 numbers overview.

Prefixes in advertising and print

One practical note for published material: write the prefix and tail in the format customers actually dial — 1300 000 000 spacing is conventional, and a word tail should be shown as the word with its prefix, as in the site's own 1300 EASY DIAL example. Mixing formats across materials makes a number harder to recall and to dictate over the phone. The prefix itself rarely needs explaining to Australian callers; the tail is what they retain, which is why the word option exists at all.

Prefix questions

Which prefix should my business choose?

Choose by caller cost: 1800 if customers should pay nothing in the Australian context, 1300 for the shared-cost arrangement. Everything else — plans, word options, the answering-point model — is the same on both.

Can I choose the prefix and the digits separately?

Yes. The prefix sets the caller arrangement and the six-digit tail is what you search. The Find a Number search works on the tail and covers both bases.

Do 13 numbers have the same prefix system?

A 13 base is shorter — the prefix plus four digits — and on this site it appears as a Phoneword base. Availability on a 13 base is not shown in the published search, so ask the team.

Can I get a number with my local area code here?

Geographic area-code numbers are not part of the published product set. The inbound prefixes here are state-neutral by design, and no region-specific availability is claimed on this page.