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PRA C TICAL INFORM A TION 375

Communications in Lithuania DIRECTORY
The widespread network of telephone and mail services in Useful Numbers
Lithuania is very efficient. The huge popu larity of mobile Directory Enquiries
phones has ensured that the few public phones that exist are Tel 118.
rarely used. Post offices can be found in all towns and larger Mobile Phones
villages. Internet usage is virtually universal and finding an
access point is seldom a problem. Bitė
∑ bite.lt
Omnitel
Mobile Phones
∑ omnitel.lt
There are three mobile phone Tele2
operators in Lithuania, namely ∑ tele2.lt
Omnitel, Tele2 and Bitė. They
provide prepaid SIM cards Postal Services
which might be helpful to those
from outside the EU who are DHL
Phone card, available with the service concerned about roaming ∑ dhl.lv
provider, Teo LT charges. Keep in mind that DPD
your phone would need to be ∑ dpd.lv
Making a Phone Call
unlocked. Visitors staying for
Public telephones are steadily longer periods have the Lietuvos Paštas
disappearing from Lithuania, option of buying a cheap Gedimino 7, Vilnius. Tel 261 6759.
∑ post.lt
but a few can still be found. All phone on a pay-as-you-go
valid telephone numbers in basis to take advantage of
Lithuania have eight digits low local rates. Phones can be
(including the area code), with purchased in shops and stalls on Saturdays and from 10am
the exception of special public in indoor shopping centres. to 8pm on Sundays.
services such as four-digit Sending a letter of up to 20 g
numbers for taxi companies. in Europe costs €0.75; to send it
All mobile numbers currently The Internet by registered mail costs €2.84.
start with 6. Fast, free-of-charge Wi-Fi can Major international
Area codes are one to three be found at restaurants, hotels couriers such as DHL and
digits and need to be left off and cafés in Vilnius and much DPD operate in Lithuania, but
when dialling locally from a land of the rest of Lithuania, and the cheapest way of sending
line. In Vilnius for example the old-fashioned internet cafés a parcel home is probably with
area code is 5. When in Vilnius are becoming difficult to find. Lietuvos Paštas, either to a
you dial seven digits, leaving If you find that Wi-Fi is not specific address, from post
off the 5. When dialling from immediately available wherever office to post office, or
another area code, dial 8 first, you happen to be, a local will shipped via courier.
then the full eight-digit number undoubtedly be able to tell you
including the area code. When where you might find it.
calling any number from a Dialling Codes
mobile phone, dial the • Mobile numbers start
complete eight-digit number, Postal Services with 6.
including the area code. Branches of Lietuvos Paštas, • Lithuania’s city codes
Now that public telephones Lithuania’s state-owned post include 5 for Vilnius, 37 for
have been withdrawn, the office company, are found all Kaunas, 46 for Klaipėda, 313
easiest way to make interna- over the country. In large for Druskininkai, 460 for
tional calls is simply with your towns and cities they are Palanga and 469 for Nida.
own mobile phone after increasingly located in indoor • Toll-free numbers start with
8; premium-rate numbers
register ing with one of the three shopping centres where start with 9.
mobile phone operators active opening hours are long and • To make an international call
in the country, Omnitel, Tele2 include Sundays. In Vilnius, the from Lithuania, first press “+”,
and Bitė. EU regulations ensure main post office is on the main then the destination’s
that roaming charges are not street, at Gedimino 7, and is country code and number.
extor tionate. If roaming charges open from 8:30am to 7pm • To call Lithuania from
are a concern, you could pur- on weekdays and from 9am abroad dial the international
chase a prepaid calling card for to 2pm on Saturdays, but is access code (00 from the
inter national calls, which allows closed on Sundays. A branch at UK, 011 from US and
connection through a toll-free the central train station is open Canada), followed by 370,
number and gives automated longer: from 7am to 9pm on Lithuania’s country code.
instruc tions in many languages. weekdays, from 9am to 8pm