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Mauritius Telecom is a global operator who provides both international direct dialling (IDD) and operator assistance.

You call your international contacts directly by dialling 020 on a high quality line whenever you want and pay for your calls on your MT telephone bill.

Key features
Our International Direct Dialling (IDD) brings you
- Comfort with the best possible quality on the island
- Flexibility as you do not need prepaid cards
- Freedom as you pay for what you consume each month
- Detailed bills

How to place call?
To place an international call, just pick up your handset and dial 020 “country code? “area code if relevant? “number?

For example if you want to call a number in France dial 020 33 1 12345678 where 1 is the area code for Paris.

Call us on 8902 or look up our MT phonebook if you need information on a country code or area code.

International 020 Tariffs

Tariffs (Rs excl VAT) Peak Hours Off-Peak Hours
First 30 s Per additional second First 30 s Per additional second
Zone 2 4.50 0.15 3.60 0.12
Zone 3,4,5 5.10 0.17 4.50 0.15
Zone 6,7,8 5.40 0.18 4.80 0.16
Zone 2 Reunion
Zone 3,4,5 Comoros, Erythrea, Ethiopia, Kenys, Lesotho, Mayotte, Uganda, Seychelles, Tanzania
Zone 6,7,8 South Africa, Australia, China, USA, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, UK, Switzerland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, others
Peak Hours 06:00 to 22:00 Hours Monday to Friday
06:00 to 12:00 Hours Saturday

Operator assistance

Whenever your destination cannot be accessed via IDD or you need a personal service, use our operator assistance service

The operator assistance services are available on 191.

A minimum of three minutes is charged for all overseas calls connected via our operator assistance service. All additional consumption is charged in steps of one minute.

Dial 191 to book your international calls with the following options:

- Person to person call: the operator will connect the call only when the requested party is available; an additional charge equivalent to one-minute call will apply.

- Collect call: the operator will connect the call only when the called party accepts to pay for the call; an additional charge equivalent to two minutes applies.

- Countries for which this service is available: UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea and Rodrigues.

- Credit card call: international calls may be charged to the following credit cards: Canada Credit Card, South Korea Credit Card, USA AT&T Credit Card, UK BT charge card, New Zealand Credit Card.

- Fixed time call: calls may be booked to all destinations up to a maximum of six days in advance.

- Fixed duration call: Automatic termination of a call based on a duration given by the caller.

- Notify tone: Tone to draw attention of the caller after a specific duration.
Pre-Notice Tone: Tone to draw attention of the caller after 3 minutes and every subsequent three minute period.

For information on an already booked or completed call dial 192 (international enquiries). For example if you want to check the calls duration, charges or you have difficulty to obtain a number, dial 192 and we will help you.