With a little
patience you can make international calls from
just about any town in the country. In recent
years the telephone system has dramatically
improved, partly due to being taken over by a
Spanish telephone company and partly because of
modernization and an increasing use of
satellites.
All Peruvian towns have a Teléfonica del Peru
office, which offers an operator service; give
the receptionist your destination number and
they will allocate you to a numbered phone booth
when your call is put through (you pay
afterwards). These offices also have phones
taking cards. In Lima, the central Teléfonica
del Peru office is often crowded, so a better
option is to phone from your hotel or from the
street telephone kiosks .
All phone kiosks are operated by coins or
tarjetas telefonicas - phone cards - which are
available in a variety of denominations, and
nuevo sol coins. You can buy phone cards from
corner shops, farmacias or on the street from
cigarette stalls in the centres of most towns
and cities. There are currently two phone
outfits, Telefonica del Peru and Telepoint, each
of whom produce their own cards for use in their
phones only.
You should be able to make direct, international
calls without much problem from anywhere in Peru,
but if you need to contact the international
operator , dial 108. Collect calls are known
either simply as collect or al cobro revertido
and are fairly straightforward. Calls are
cheaper at night. Most shops, restaurants or
corner shops in Peru have a phone available for
public use, which you can use for calls within
Peru only.
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